Re: New recruit, help needed in choosing project

[alessandro ferrucci <a24 umbc edu>]

My understanding was that DocBook was not simply a set of tools but also
its own DTD specification with its own elements, separate from XML.  

In that case would I be wrong in saying that to make full use of DocBook
one would need to original sgml file that the current xml file was
created from?  Without that wouldn't you be restricted to simply writing
XML since that's the only format you're given it in?  I may have missed
it but I did not see an sgml file in the cvs module for gedit, only an
xml file.

Thanks!

~Alessandro Ferrucci

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 09:38 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- alessandro ferrucci <a24 umbc edu> wrote:
> > I'm very new
> > to DocBook but it's my understanding that I'd write
> > a document in the
> > DocBook SGML format and then convert it to xml using
> > the DocBook tools,
> > how do I go about editing the already existing xml
> > file in the cvs tree?
> 
> I'm new to it too.
> I've just been editing the xml files directly in gedit
> or bluefish.
> 
> I'm used to HTML and XML, so I've picked up DocBook
> basics quite quickly. 
> I'd say you can get by with mostly just the <sect> and
> <para> tags. You can pick up things like <xref> by
> looking at how it's done in the file.
> 
> hope that helps :)
> 
> 
> 
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