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<td style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Dateinamenserweiterung" title="Dateinamenserweiterung">Dateiendung</a>:
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<td><code style="margin:0.2em 0; padding:0;">.dbk, .xml</code>
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<td style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="Internet_Media_Type" title="Internet Media Type">MIME-Type</a>:
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<td><code style="margin:0.2em 0; padding:0;">application/docbook+xml</code>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;">Entwickelt von:
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<td><a href="Organization_for_the_Advancement_of_Structured_Information_Standards" title="Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards">Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards</a>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;">Aktuelle <a href="Version_(Software)" title="Version (Software)">Version</a>
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<td>5.1<sup id="cite_ref-announcement-v5.1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-announcement-v5.1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br> (2016-12-14)
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<td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.1/os/docbook-v5.1-os.html">5.1 (November 2016)</a>,<br>
<p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/docbook-4.5-spec.html">4.5 (Oktober 2006)</a>
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<p><b>DocBook</b> ist ein <a href="Dokumentenformat" title="Dokumentenformat">Dokumentenformat</a>, das in einer für <a href="Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language" title="Standard Generalized Markup Language">SGML</a> und <a href="Extensible_Markup_Language" title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</a> vorliegenden <a href="Dokumenttypdefinition" title="Dokumenttypdefinition">Dokumenttypdefinition</a> (DTD) festgelegt ist. Es eignet sich besonders zur Erstellung von Büchern, Artikeln und Dokumentationen im technischen Umfeld (<a href="Hardware" title="Hardware">Hardware</a> oder <a href="Software" title="Software">Software</a>). DocBook ist ein offener Standard, der von der <a href="Organization_for_the_Advancement_of_Structured_Information_Standards" title="Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards">Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards</a> (OASIS) gepflegt wird.
</p><p>Am weitesten verbreitet ist die Verwendung von DocBook bei <a href="Open_Source" title="Open Source">Open-Source</a>-Projekten. So verwendet das <a href="Linux_Documentation_Project" title="Linux Documentation Project">Linux Documentation Project</a> die DTD zum Erstellen der <a href="Howto" title="Howto">Howtos</a>. <a href="K_Desktop_Environment" title="K Desktop Environment">KDE</a> und <a href="GNOME" class="mw-redirect" title="GNOME">GNOME</a>/<a href="GIMP-Toolkit" class="mw-redirect" title="GIMP-Toolkit">GTK</a>+ verwenden es als grundlegendes Format für alle <a href="Application_Programming_Interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application Programming Interface">API</a>-Dokumentationen sowie <a href="Benutzerhandbuch" class="mw-redirect" title="Benutzerhandbuch">Benutzerhandbücher</a> der <a href="Anwendungsprogramm" class="mw-redirect" title="Anwendungsprogramm">Anwendungsprogramme</a>.
</p><p>Ein Vergleich zwischen DocBook und der für ähnliche Zwecke vorgesehenen <a href="Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture" title="Darwin Information Typing Architecture">Darwin Information Typing Architecture</a> (DITA) findet sich dort im Abschnitt <a href="Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture#Vorteile_gegenüber_und_Vergleich_mit_DocBook" title="Darwin Information Typing Architecture">Vorteile und Vergleich gegenüber DocBook</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Beispiel-Code">Beispiel-Code</h2></div>
<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-xml mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nt"><book</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="na">id=</span><span class="s">"einfaches_buch"</span><span class="nt">></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt"><title></span>Ein<span class="w"> </span>sehr<span class="w"> </span>einfaches<span class="w"> </span>Buch<span class="nt"></title></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt"><chapter</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="na">id=</span><span class="s">"einfaches_kapitel"</span><span class="nt">></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt"><title></span>Kapitel<span class="nt"></title></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt"><para></span>Hallo<span class="w"> </span>Welt!<span class="nt"></para></span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Versionen">Versionen</h2></div>
<p>Die aktuelle Version ist DocBook 5.1 vom 22. November 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-announcement-v5.1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-announcement-v5.1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Vorher war DocBook 5.0 vom 12. August 2008 aktuell. Der Hauptunterschied von 5.0 zu früheren 4.x Versionen war, dass ein Docbook-Element unabhängig von seiner Position im Dokument den gleichen Inhalt hatte.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Norman Walsh: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.1/"><i>DocBook 5.1: The Definitive Guide</i>.</a> O’Reilly Associates, ISBN 978-0-596-80502-9</li>
<li>Thomas Schraitle: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.millin.de/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=18&category_id=3&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=83"><i>DocBook-XML: Medienneutrales und plattformunabhängiges Publizieren</i>.</a> 2. Auflage. Millin Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-938626-14-6, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.data2type.de/xml-xslt-xslfo/docbook/">komplett online</a></li>
<li>Bob Stayton: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/"><i>DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide</i>.</a> 4. Auflage. Sagehill Enterprises, 2007, ISBN 0-9741521-1-0</li>
<li>Lars Trieloff: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r261891140">
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</style><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080626082255/http://www.goshaky.com/docbook-tutorial/"><i>DocBook-XML: Einführung und Anwendung</i>.</a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 26. Juni 2008 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>) MITP Verlag, ISBN 3-8266-1519-0</li></ul>
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<div class="sisterproject" style="margin:0.1em 0 0 0;"><div class="noviewer" style="display:inline-block; line-height:10px; min-width:1.6em; text-align:center;" aria-hidden="true" role="presentation"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Wikibooks"></span></span></div><b><a href="https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/en:XML_-_Managing_Data_Exchange/DocBook" class="extiw external" title="b:en:XML - Managing Data Exchange/DocBook">Wikibooks: DocBook in „XML: Managing Data Exchange“</a></b> – Lern- und Lehrmaterialien (englisch)</div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=4576317-3">Literatur von und über DocBook</a> im Katalog der <a href="Deutsche_Nationalbibliothek" title="Deutsche Nationalbibliothek">Deutschen Nationalbibliothek</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-announcement-v5.1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-announcement-v5.1_1-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-announcement-v5.1_1-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/docbook-version-5-1-oasis-standard-published">#DocBook Version 5.1 OASIS Standard published.</a> OASIS, 14. Dezember 2016.</span>
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