I've just been accepted to present at XML-in-Practice 2009, September 30 - October 1, 2009 at the Arlington Hilton near Washington DC!
My presentation entitled, Professional Publishing on a Shoestring Budget, will discuss how to optimize your multi-channel publishing processes using the latest approved DocBook v5.0 schema and the DocBook Publishers schema.
Details on the conference are available at the XML-in-Practice website.
I hope to see you there!
Well, we finally got all the i's dotted and the t's crossed! The DocBook Publishers schema is available for public review. This is an effort I chaired to support the needs we've seen in the publishing industry.
Many publishers spend considerable amounts of time and money developing and maintaining their own custom schemas and output rendering. This standard tries to address the unique needs of publishers, while building upon a standards-based platform to reduce cost and ensure consistency. Key publishers involved in this effort have included: O'Reilly, John Wiley and Sons, and Penguin UK, so this was not developed in a vacuum either!
Here's the notice from OASIS:
The OASIS DocBook TC has recently [January 2009] approved the following specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public review:
The DocBook Publishers Schema Version 1.0
The public review starts today, 2 July 2009, and ends 31 August 2009. This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. Please feel free to distribute this announcement within your organization and to other appropriate mail lists.
More non-normative information about the specification and the technical committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbook. Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button marked "Send A Comment" at the top of that page, or directly at: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=docbook .
Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at: http://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.
The specification document and related files are available here:
Editable Source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cd-01.xmlPDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cd-01.pdfHTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cd-01.htmlSchema:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/rng/publishers/publishers.rncOASIS and the DocBook TC welcome your comments.
You can also take a look at all of our content samples on SourceForge here:
http://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/docbook/trunk/docbook/relaxng/publishers
