5. Further Information

This section has some pointers to the related resource on the internet.

If you would like to suggest additional resource for this section, please email me @ . Thanks.

5.1. News groups

Some of the News groups of interest are:

  1. comp.text.sgml (easily accessible from http://www.deja.com)

  2. comp.text.xml (easily accessible from http://www.deja.com)

  3. htmldoc.general (server - nttp://news.easysw.com)

5.2. Mailing Lists

Here are some relevant Mailing Lists

  1. DocBook mailing list @ OASIS. Visit http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/mailinglist/index.shtml for more info.

  2. DocBook mailing list @ TLDP. Visit http://www.tldp.org/mailinfo.html for more info.

  3. xml-doc @ Yahoo Groups. Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xml-doc/ for more info.

5.3. IRC

  1. DocBook IRC Channel. #docbook on irc://irc.openprojects.net

5.4. Web Sites

  1. http://www.oasis-open.org/ OASIS maintains various DocBook DTDs

  2. http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/The DocBook Wiki

  3. http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/Online version of DocBook: The Definitive Guide

  4. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-docbk.htmlA gentle guide to DocBook (very good introduction).

  5. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/index.htmlThe Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) Author Guide

  6. http://www.tldp.org/authors/index.html#resourcesDocBook resources provided by TLDP

5.5. Commercial Tools

  1. DocPro by Command Prompt, INC. http://www.commandprompt.com/entry.lxp?lxpe=2

  2. YAWC Pro by XML Workshop LTD. http://www.yawcpro.com/. Can be used for converting MS Word to Simple DocBook XML.

  3. Logictran RTF Converter. http://www.logictran.com/. Word/RTF to HTML/XML

  4. MajiX - Word to XML converter. http://tetrasys.dhs.org/

  5. XMETAL by SoftQuad http://www.softquad.com/