[Bf-docboard] software tools 'XML'?

[Martin Middleton]

Actually, XML is a markup language, just like HTML, XHTML, and SGML.

DocBook is general purpose XML and SGML document type particularly well 
suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it 
is by no means limited to these applications).

If you want to learn all about DocBook (the method used by the Blender 
docboard to generate the manual), take a look at "The Definitive Guide to 
DocBook" located here:

http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/docbook.html

At 04:39 PM 3/20/2004, you wrote:
>Hi, I'm new to this list, and I'm only redoing screenshots of tutorials.  W
>
>What everyone is saying is kindof confusing.  As far as I know, XML isn't 
>any specific language, it's a specification.  XML is simply a set of rules 
>to follow when creating a markup language.  For example, an office program 
>(non-Microsoft of course) might save its files in an XML file format.  A 
>new version of HTML, XHTML, is currently being widely implemented.  So, 
>what's this "XML" you are all talking about?  DocBook?
>
>joeedh
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