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Simplified DocBook
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- Subject: Simplified DocBook
- From: Michael Smith <[email protected]>
- Date: 23 Oct 2000 18:39:23 -0700
- In-reply-to: Craig Williams's message of "Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:59:45 +0100"
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I remember a thread on this list a while back discussing which DTD a
new contributor should start with to author documentation. However, I
don't remember seeing any discussion of Norman Walsh's simplified
version of the DocBook DTD:
http://www.nwalsh.com/docbook/simple/index.html
I'd like to suggest that simplified DocBook might be a good choice not
only for beginners, but also for anyone else writing non-book-length
technical documents that don't require all of DocBook's options.
Compared to mastering full DocBook's ~375 elements/~100 attributes,
learning and using simplified DocBook's ~120 elements/~50 attributes
is much closer in scope to learning and using something like HTML (~90
elements/~110 attributes).
--Mike Smith
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