DocBook (http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/) is an agreed upon [SGML]/[XML] [DTD] used for writing books and papers about computer hardware and software.

The home of ''DocBook: The Definitive Guide'' http://www.docbook.org/

Have a look at the wiki as well: http://www.docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/

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See also http://freshmeat.net/projects/docbook2x/ for
a tool to convert DocBook formatted files into Texinfo or
man page formatted files.

''The docbook sf-project includes xslt and dsssl stylesheets. Normally that would be towards pdf, html, xml, rtf, but I would think tex as well, texinfo I'm not sure about. [VL] 16/6-03.''

Online DocBook Validator and XML -> HTML/PDF Transformer: http://validate.sf.net 

A bit old but impressive list of tools about Docbook: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/tools.html includes many pointers to SourceForge-hosted projects (db2latex, etc.). [CM] 17/6/03.



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I wonder if http://freshmeat.net/projects/remark/ might help convert some
docs into this format...

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