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28 July 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards [OASIS]. All Rights Reserved. DocBook is general purpose and document type particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications). The Version 4.5 release is a maintenance release. It introduces no backwards-incompatible changes. This &standard; is an editor's draft. It does not necessarily represent the consensus of the committee. Please send comments on this specification to the docbook@lists.oasis-open.org list. To subscribe, please use the OASIS Subscription Manager. The errata page for this specification is at .

DocBook is general purpose XML and SGML document type particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications). The DocBook Technical Committee maintains the DocBook schema. DocBook is officially available as a Document Type Definition (DTD) for both XML and SGML. It is unofficially available in other forms as well. The Version 4.5 release is a maintainance release. It introduces no backwards-incompatible changes. All valid DocBook 4.4 documents are also valid DocBook 4.5 documents. The Committee decided to produce a DocBook V4.5, incorporating a few recent backwards-compatible changes, in order to publish DocBook as a Committee Draft and eventually as an OASIS Standard through the new process. The DocBook Technical Committee welcomes bug reports and requests for enhancement (RFEs) from the user community. The current list of outstanding requests is available through the SourceForge tracker interface. This is also the preferred mechanism for submitting new requests. Old RFEs, from a previous legacy tracking system, are archived for reference.

The key words must, must not, required, shall, shall not, should, should not, recommended, may, and optional in this &standard; are to be interpreted as described in . Note that for reasons of style, these words are not capitalized in this document.

The DocBook document type is distributed for XML and SGML from the DocBook site at OASIS. It is also available in RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema formats. The DocBook site is mirrored on .

There are no technical changes in this release.

There are no backwards-incompatible changes in this release. Each of the changes made between DocBook V4.5b1 and DocBook V4.5CR1 is summarized here. For complete details, consult the individual RFEs and the meeting minutes. There are no technical changes in DocBook V4.5CR1.

There are no backwards-incompatible changes in this release. Each of the changes made between DocBook V4.4 and DocBook V4.5b1 is summarized here. For complete details, consult the individual RFEs and the meeting minutes.

None.

RFE 1055480: Allow revnumber to be optional in revision per the November, 2004 meeting. RFE 1070458: Allow colophon in article per the November, 2004 meeting. RFE 1070770: Allow procedure in example per the November, 2004 meeting. RFE 1071686: Add isrn as a value of class attribute on biblioid, citebiblioid, bibliosource, and bibliorelation per the December, 2004 meeting. Added mathphrase per the February, 2005 meeting. Added termdef per the March, 2005 meeting. Allow common attributes on HTML table elements (tr, td, etc.) per the April, 2005 meeting.

XML validation technologies have evolved rapidly in the last few years. The Technical Committee is exploring the possibility of using RELAX NG as the principal validation technology for DocBook V5.0. The move to RELAX NG will also cause some one time backward-incompatible changes which are not listed in this specifcation.

This appendix registers a new MIME media type, application/docbook+xml.

MIME media type name: application MIME subtype name: docbook+xml Required parameters: None. Optional parameters: charset This parameter has identical semantics to the charset parameter of the application/xml media type as specified in or its successors. Encoding considerations: By virtue of DocBook XML content being XML, it has the same considerations when sent as application/docbook+xml as does XML. See , Section 3.2. Security considerations: Several DocBook elements may refer to arbitrary URIs. In this case, the security issues of RFC 2396, section 7, should be considered. Interoperability considerations: None. Published specification: This media type registration is for DocBook documents as described by . Applications which use this media type: There is no experimental, vendor specific, or personal tree predecessor to application/docbook+xml, reflecting the fact that no applications currently recognize it. This new type is being registered in order to allow for the deployment of DocBook on the World Wide Web, as a first class XML application. Additional information: Magic number(s): There is no single initial octet sequence that is always present in DocBook documents. File extension(s): DocBook documents are most often identified with the extension .xml. Macintosh File Type Code(s): TEXT Person & email address to contact for further information: Norman Walsh, ndw@nwalsh.com. Intended usage: COMMON Author/Change controller: The DocBook specification is a work product of the DocBook Technical Committee at OASIS.

For documents labeled as application/docbook+xml, the fragment identifier notation is exactly that for application/xml, as specified in or its successors.

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