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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
To: Poet/Joshua Drake <poet@linuxports.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 06:50:13 -0500

/ 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

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | One should always be a little
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | improbable.--Oscar Wilde
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

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