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Invitation to comment on The DocBook Schema v5.0.1 – ends Oct. 20th

OASIS and the OASIS DocBook TC are pleased to announce that The DocBook Schema Version 5.0.1 is now available for public review and comment.

DocBook is widely used in computer hardware and software documentation in both commercial and Open Source environments. Broadly, this includes both print and online tutorial and reference documentation as well as online help, user guides, exercises and other ancillary forms of documentation.

The DocBook Version 5.0 schema was delivered in 2009 using the RelaxNG schema language with additional constraints specified in Schematron. The Schematron rules changed after DocBook 5.0 was released, so some Schematron tools do not work with DocBook 5.0. The DocBook 5.0.1 specification is updated with the new Schematron rules so users can continue using DocBook 5.0 if they need to use newer Schematron tools.

The documents and related files are available here:

The DocBook Schema Version 5.0.1
Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
12 September 2018

Editable source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.0.1/csprd01/docbook-v5.0.1-csprd01.docx
HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.0.1/csprd01/docbook-v5.0.1-csprd01.html
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.0.1/csprd01/docbook-v5.0.1-csprd01.pdf
Relax NG schemas:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.0.1/csprd01/schemas/rng/
Schematron schema:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.0.1/csprd01/schemas/sch/
DTD schema:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.0.1/csprd01/schemas/dtd/
XML schemas:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.0.1/csprd01/schemas/xsd/
catalog.xml:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.0.1/csprd01/schemas/catalog.xml
docbook.nvdl:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.0.1/csprd01/schemas/docbook.nvdl

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the specification document and any related files in ZIP distribution files. You can download the ZIP file at:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.0.1/csprd01/docbook-v5.0.1-csprd01.zip

How to Provide Feedback

OASIS and the OASIS DocBook TC value your feedback. We solicit input from developers, users and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

The public review starts September 21 at 00:00 UTC and ends October 20 at 23:59 UTC.

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be used by following the instructions on the TC’s “Send A Comment” page (https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=docbook).

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [1] applicable especially [2] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

Additional information about the specification and the DocBook TC can be found at the TC’s public home page:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/

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[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#RF-on-Limited-Mode
RF on Limited Terms Mode