Free, Featured, Flexible
Ivan Zaporozhets
Second Edition (alpha)
Copyright © 2010-2012 Divine Dandelion℠ Online Publishing Service
As it was announced early this year, the similar called article has been transformed into the book. Meet the Second Edition alpha.
This tutorial explains how to build complete toolchains suitable for modern DocBook XML 5.0+ projects. Following the tutorial and building the toolchains, you will build a pretty comfortable and efficient workspace as well.
All toolchains described in the book are complete solutions characterized as “F3”: Free (all tools in the toolchains are either open-source software or free editions of proprietary products), Featured (RelaxNG-aware validation, tag completion, auto-building; XSLT 1.0 and 2.0, XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0 support; and much more), and Flexible (various output formats with the same toolchain; easy upgrading; expandability; maintenance of multiple projects; etc).
The book can also serve as an initial DocBook tutorial for very beginners.
Written for and tested under Ubuntu® Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS (may be run in a virtual machine), it can be adopted for other Linux® distributions and even for other operation systems including Windows® OS family.
Revision 1.90
June 15, 2012
- Reformatted to book
- Changed the title and subtitle
- Deleted notes on Ubuntu® releases prior to Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS
- Expanded Abstract
- Changed Acknowledgements
- Added Preface
- Moved to Preface: the section called “Introduction”, the section called “Prerequisites”, the section called “Conventions”, and the section called “Feedback”
- Added Part II, “Installation Tasks” and Part IV, “Advanced Tasks”
- Changed several program listings
- Added Colophon
- Some minor corrections
