Re: [members] DocBook Version 5.1 OASIS Standard published

[Richard Hamilton <hamilton@xmlpress.net>]

Hi Bryan,

Thanks to you for letting the XLIFF TC members know about the vote, and thanks to everyone on the XLIFF TC who voted or helped get out the vote.

Best regards,
Dick Hamilton
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> On Dec 14, 2016, at 15:59, Schnabel, Bryan S <bryan.s.schnabel@tektronix.com> wrote:
> 
> Congratulations to the DocBook team. I for one cannot wait to try the new standard.
>  
> Bryan Schnabel
> Chair, OASIS XLIFF TC
>  
> From: Chet Ensign [mailto:chet.ensign@oasis-open.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:57 PM
> To: tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org; members@lists.oasis-open.org; DocBook Technical Committee <docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org>; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org; docbook-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [members] DocBook Version 5.1 OASIS Standard published
>  
> OASIS Members,
>  
> OASIS is pleased to announce the publication of its newest OASIS Standard, approved by the members on 22 November 2016:
>  
> DocBook Version 5.1
> OASIS Standard
> 22 November 2016
>  
> Overview:
>  
> DocBook is a general purpose [XML] schema particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).
>  
> The Version 5.1 release introduces assemblies for topic-oriented authoring. It also addresses a selection of bugs and feature requests.
>  
> The Technical Committee provides the DocBook 5.1 schema in other schema languages, including W3C XML Schema and an XML DTD, but the RELAX NG Schema is the normative schema.
>  
> URIs:
>  
> The prose specifications and related files are available here:
>  
> DocBook Version 5.1
>  
> HTML (Authoritative): 
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.1/os/docbook-v5.1-os.html 
>  
> PDF: 
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.1/os/docbook-v5.1-os.pdf
>  
> Editable source:
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.1/os/docbook-v5.1-os.xml
>  
> Schemas: 
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.1/os/schemas/
>  
> DocBook V4.x conversion tools: 
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.1/os/tools/
>  
> Distribution ZIP files
>  
> For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:
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> http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.1/os/docbook-v5.1-os.zip
>  
> Our congratulations to the members of the OASIS DocBook Technical Committee on achieving this milestone.
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> /chet 
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