6 January 1997 SUMMARY: DocBook Version 3.0 has been released and is now available from the Davenport Group's Web site (accessible through http://www.ora.com/davenport/index.html and ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/). * * * Some of the new and changed features of this version are as follows: o Reworking of the bibliographic markup to make it more flexible and usable. o New retrieval metadata that applies to whole divisions: flat keywords, hierarchical subject topics, and sets of index terms. o New inline elements: ErrorCode, Prompt, and EnVar. o Broadening of FuncSynopsis content. o Broadening of Article content. o Changeover to the SGML Open CALS full table model. o New parameterization scheme for the Role attribute that makes it easier to customize Role individually for each element. Current DocBook users should note that a handful of planned backwards-incompatible changes have been made. In general, these should not adversely affect existing documents. Note also that comments have been added to the DTD to reflect the planned backwards-incompatible changes that will be made in V4.0 (no delivery date scheduled). There is also a 40issues.txt file in the DocBook distribution that summarizes these planned changes. Maintainers and other DTD readers may want to take note of a few small name changes that have been made to parameter entities; these may affect existing customization layers. Updated reference documentation for V3.0 is available; fully updated maintenance and user's documentation is forthcoming. You can download the files related to DocBook V3.0 from the following locations: o ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/docbook/docbk30.tar.Z (requires tar and uncompress) o ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/docbook/docbk30.zip (requires pkunzip) Comments on DocBook are always welcome. You can send comments and questions to the Davenport list (davenport@online.ora.com), or directly to the maintainers of DocBook, Terry Allen (tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com) and Eve Maler (elm@arbortext.com). Thank you.