Re: [docbook-tc] Announce: DocBook V4.2 Release Candidate 1

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

Norm,
Would you be interested in making available a LiveDTD
version of 4.2 CR1 on the OASIS website?  The first thing I
do with a new DTD is make a LiveDTD version so I can
browse it easily.  I figure other people might like to
see it that way. If not, I can just put it up on my website.

BTW, there are 388 elements and 2160 parameter entities
in 4.2 CR1.  For comparison:

             Elements    PEs
             --------  ----------
Docbook 4.2CR1   388    2160
Docbook 4.1.2    375    2067
DocBook 3.1      351    1888
DocBook 2.2.1    278      58

The number of elements hasn't grown that fast, but it's
obvious when the DTD was really parameterized!

bobs

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 07:34:24AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> The DocBook Technical Committee is pleased to announce the release of
> DocBook V4.2 Release Candidate 1 in XML[1] and SGML[2].
> 
> DocBook V4.2 incorporates numerous enhancements over DocBook V4.1 and
> DocBook XML V4.1.2. These changes are documented in the DocBook
> Document Type[3] specification.
> 
> Development of DocBook V4.2 is "finished". The purpose of the
> Candidate Release phase is to encourage widespread testing of the
> latest DocBook release. If no problems are reported in the next 30
> days, the DocBook Technical Committee plans to advance DocBook V4.2 to
> Committee Specification status.
> 
> Please give DocBook V4.2 a try in your favorite tools and report any
> problems that you encounter to the docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> mailing list.
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
> 
> [1] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2CR1/
> [2] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.2CR1/
> [3] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook-4.2-CR1.html
> 
> -- 
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