Jirka Kosek announced the availability of an updated "howto" DocBook
Version 5.0 Transition Guide. The document is targeted at DocBook users
who are considering switching from DocBook V4.x to DocBook V5.0. It
describes differences between DocBook V4.x and V5.0 and provides some
suggestions about how to edit and process DocBook V5.0 documents. There
is also a section devoted to conversion of legacy documents from DocBook
4.x to DocBook V5.0. The differences between DocBook V4.x and V5.0 are
quite radical in some aspects, but the basic idea behind DocBook is
still the same and almost all element names are unchanged. Because of
this it is very easy to become familiar with DocBook V5.0 if you know
any previous version of DocBook. For more than a decade, the DocBook
schema was defined using a DTD. However DTDs have serious limitations
and DocBook V5.0 is thus defined using a very powerful schema language
called RELAX NG. Thanks to RELAX NG, it is now much easier to create
customized versions of DocBook, and some content models are now cleaner
and more precise. The Technical Committee provides the DocBook 5.0
schema in other schema languages, including W3C XML Schema and an XML
DTD, but the RELAX NG Schema is the normative schema. All DocBook V5.0
elements are in the namespace Link XML
namespaces are used to distinguish between different element sets. In
the last few years, almost all new XML grammars have used their own
namespace. It is easy to create compound documents that contain elements
from different XML vocabularies. The namespace name serves only as an identifier. This
resource is not fetched during processing of DocBook documents and
you are not required to have an Internet connection during processing.
If you access the namespace URI with a browser, you will find a short
explanatory document about the namespace. In the future this document
will probably conform to (some version of) RDDL and provide pointers
to related resources. More Information See also DocBook V5.x: Click Here
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