Re: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

[Poet/Joshua Drake <poet@linuxports.com>]

Hello,

Fair enough --- but understand that would would edit it ;)

J

On 31 Oct 2001, Norman Walsh wrote:

>/ Poet/Joshua Drake <poet@linuxports.com> was heard to say:
>| OpenDocs publishing is considering publishing the 2.02 version of DocBook
>| the Definitive Guide.
>
>Please don't. The 2.0.2 version is entirely unready for print
>publication: it's a work in progress, slowly making a transformation
>from an SGML-centric book about DocBook 3.1 to a more XML-centric book
>about DocBook 4.x.
>
>Wait for 2.1.x, please. That's what that middle number is for :-)
>
>                                        Be seeing you,
>                                          norm
>
>

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