Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook V4.2b0 "available"

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> We talked about doing a 4.2 release asap, so I've put together a first stab
> at the release. It's available, though not publically linked to, at
> 
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.2b0/
> 
> and
> 
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2b0/
> 
> The 4.2 spec is
> 
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook-4.2b0.html
> 
> We'll need to coordinate a release of the XML Character Entities with
> this release because I've removed them from the 4.2 XML distribution.
> 
> Comments, etc. most welcome.

FWIW, here's dtddiff output for DocBook XML 4.1.2 and 4.2b0:

  http://www.logopoeia.com/docbook/db412to42b0-diff.txt

And Bob Stayton has run 4.2b0 through LiveDTD:

> And you can also browse the hypertext version of the
> 4.2b0 XML DTD that I created with LiveDTD 
> and posted on my website at:
> 
> http://www.sagehill.net/livedtd/docbook42/
> 
> Or you can download the collection of HTML files for local
> browsing (which is usually much faster since the html files
> are kind of big):
> 
> http://www.sagehill.net/livedtd/docbook42.zip
> 
> That site also has DocBook XML 4.1.2 for comparison,
> and a description of how LiveDTD works.
> It makes reviewing changes like these much easier.
> 
> bobs
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