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Clarify history of DocBook.

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PR:		docs/50824
Submitted by:	Oliver Fischer <plexus@snafu.de>
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Murray Stokely 2003-04-26 07:40:04 +00:00
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<sect1 id="sgml-markup-docbook">
<title>DocBook</title>
<para>DocBook was designed by the <ulink
url="http://www.oreilly.com/davenport/">Davenport Group</ulink> to be
a DTD for writing technical documentation. As such, and unlike LinuxDoc
<para>DocBook was originally developed by HaL Computer Systems and O'Reilly
&amp; Associates to be a DTD for writing technical documentation
<footnote><para>A short history can be found under <ulink
url="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/intro.shtml">
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/intro.shtml</ulink>.
</para></footnote>. Since 1998 it is maintained by the <ulink
url="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbook">
DocBook Technical Committee</ulink>. As such, and unlike LinuxDoc
and HTML, DocBook is very heavily oriented towards markup that
describes <emphasis>what</emphasis> something is, rather than describing
<emphasis>how</emphasis> it should be presented.</para>