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>Chapter 1. Introduction</H1
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>The DocBook-utils are a collection of various utilites to
convert and analyse SGML documents in general and DocBook files
in particular. They are developped by many authors and released
under GPL licence.</P
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><A
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is a SGML-based or XML-based standard for writing technical
documentation defined by the DocBook Technical Committee of the
OASIS consortium.</P
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>The DocBook-utils try to be as general as possible, and
therefore it is possible to use them with other SGML formats
than DocBook, like TEI or HTML. But each time there was an
opportunity to make them biased to DocBook to ease the life of
DocBook users, this opportunity has been given a higher priority
than generality considerations. This is why this package is not
called "SGML-utils".</P
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>The DocBook-utils are independant of any existing distribution
of SGML parsers and of DocBook resources. However, they conform
with the new draft on SGML and DocBook standardization being
discussed at Linux Standard Base project.</P
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>So far, the DocBook-utils only consist of:
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>jw</SPAN
>, a script used to convert
from DocBook or other SGML formats into "classical" file
formats like HTML, man, info, RTF...</P
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>sgmldiff</SPAN
>, a script used to
compare the markup of a SGML file with its translation into
another language.</P
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but we would like to see them accomplish other tasks in the future:
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>Conversion from "legacy" formats like LinuxDoc, man,
info, HTML or PDF into DocBook.</P
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>Refined analysis of DocBook files like a "sgmlgrep"
program that would allow context-sensitive searchs.</P
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>Support for XML.</P
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>If you want to help or keep informed of the latest developments,
please subscribe to the "docbook-utils@bazar.conectiva.com.br"
mailing list. This list has been set up to allow collaborative
development of these
tools.</P
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