DocBook v5.0

DocBook is a general purpose [XML] schema particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).

The Version 5.0 release is a complete rewrite of DocBook in RELAX NG. The intent of this rewrite is to produce a schema that is true to the spirit of DocBook while simultaneously removing inconsistencies that have arisen as a natural consequence of DocBook’s long, slow evolution. The Technical Committee has taken this opportunity to simplify a number of content models and tighten constraints where RELAX NG makes that possible.

The Technical Committee provides the DocBook 5.0 schema in other schema languages, including W3C XML Schema and an XML DTD, but the RELAX NG Schema is now the normative schema.

Produced by:

OASIS DocBook TC

Voting history:

The DocBook Schema Version 5.0. November 2009
Voting History

The DocBook Schema Version 5.0 Errata 01. March 2018
Voting History

Cite as:

Cite as:
[DocBook-5.0] The DocBook Schema Version 5.0. Edited by Norman Walsh. 1 November 2009.
OASIS Standard. http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/docbook-5.0-spec-os.html.
Latest version: http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/docbook-5.0-spec.html.

Cite as:
[DocBook-5.0-Errata01] The DocBook Schema Version 5.0 Errata 01. Edited by Robert Stayton. 29 March 2018.
OASIS Approved Errata. http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/docbook-5.0-spec-errata01-os.html.
Latest version: http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/docbook-5.0-spec-errata01.html.