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Subject: DOCBOOK: Announce: DocBook V4.2 Released
On 16 July 2002, the DocBook Technical Committee (TC) approved publication of DocBook V4.2[1] as a Committee Specification. DocBook V4.2 is available as a DTD for both XML[2] and SGML[3] systems. Henceforth, DocBook V4.2 is the official, current version of the DocBook Document Type. At the same meeting, the TC agreed to advance DocBook V4.2 for publication as an OASIS Standard at the next opportunity. DocBook is general purpose XML and SGML document type particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications). The Version 4.2 release is a maintainance release. It introduces no backwards-incompatible changes. All valid DocBook 4.1 documents are also valid DocBook 4.2 documents. The DocBook Technical Committee welcomes bug reports and requests for enhancement (RFEs) from the user community. The current list of outstanding requests is available through the SourceForge tracker interface[4]. This is also the preferred mechanism for submitting new requests. Future development work, for the balance of this year at least, is expected to concentrate on DocBook V5.0 with a first candidate release tentatively scheduled for the spring of 2003. The DocBook TC expects to publish official DTD, RELAX NG, and W3C XML Schema versions of DocBook V5.0. Be seeing you, norm [1] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/cs-docbook-docbook-4.2.html [2] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/ [3] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.2/ [4] http://sourceforge.net/tracker//?atid=384107&group_id=21935&func=browse -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Youth lasts much longer than young http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | people think.--Comtesse Diane Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |
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