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http://bit.ly/zvDnME

" DocBook <http://docbook.sourceforge.net/>is an XML standard for
documents, developed byO’Reilly <http://oreilly.com/>as a means of
making their publishing process more efficient."

How to re-write history?

Come on Richard.

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I guess I'll have to set Sarah straight on that point :-), she's new to DocBook.

Richard



On Jan 29, 2012, at 0:20, davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk> wrote:

> http://bit.ly/zvDnME
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> " DocBook <http://docbook.sourceforge.net/>is an XML standard for documents, developed byO’Reilly <http://oreilly.com/>as a means of making their publishing process more efficient."
>
> How to re-write history?
>
> Come on Richard.
>
> regards
>
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> Dave Pawson
> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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On 01/29/2012 03:20 AM, davep wrote:
> " DocBook <http://docbook.sourceforge.net/>is an XML standard for
> documents, developed byO’Reilly <http://oreilly.com/>as a means of
> making their publishing process more efficient."
>
> How to re-write history?

Originally, yes, along with HaL. The public identifier -//HaL and
O'Reilly//DTD DocBook... may look familiar to some. (The apostrophe in
the public identifier gave DynaText conniptions.) The Davenport Group
came later.

~Chris
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leaders.” — Pete Seeger

On Sun, January 29, 2012 3:01 pm, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> On 01/29/2012 03:20 AM, davep wrote:
>> " DocBook <http://docbook.sourceforge.net/>is an XML standard for
>> documents, developed byO ??Reilly <http://oreilly.com/>as a means of
>> making their publishing process more efficient."
>>
>> How to re-write history?
>
> Originally, yes, along with HaL. The public identifier -//HaL and
> O'Reilly//DTD DocBook... may look familiar to some. (The apostrophe in
> the public identifier gave DynaText conniptions.) The Davenport Group
> came later.

Yes, it's not that she's rewritten history, just elided much of the middle
of the story. As it says in TDG [1]:

DocBook is more than 15 years old. It began in 1991 as a joint
project of HaL Computer Systems and O?Reilly & Associates (as
O?Reilly Media, Inc. was then called). Its popularity grew,
and eventually it spawned its own maintenance organization,
the Davenport Group. In mid-1998, maintenance moved to a
Technical Committee of the Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

Most of the links on the history page [2] on the DocBook wiki now no
longer resolve but the one to a 1999 short history of DocBook [3] still
works.

Regards,


Tony Graham tgraham@mentea.net
Consultant http://www.mentea.net
Mentea 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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[1] http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/ch01.html
[2] http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookHistory
[3] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/10/docbook/docbook-making.html