DocBook (was Re: [TriLUG] Linux for Newbies)

[rpjday]

On Tue, 21 May 2002, M. Mueller wrote:

> Is there an equivalent to "hello world" for DocBook?  Having to amass 5-6 
> tools and use a non-trivial makefile to create a document from a document 
> about a document is not for the faint of heart or over-committed or 
> disorganized (here, here, and here).  Maybe there's just no way to make it 
> simple?

this is a non-trivial project you're looking at here.  keep in mind that
the whole point of writing something in docbook is that you want to
be able to generate various output formats.  so even a simple example
will involve XML, XSL, DocBook, an XSL-T processor like xsltproc,
PassiveTeX for DVI, PDF and PostScript output, and so on.  not to
mention tim's xmlto front-end which really does make life
simpler.

sorry, there's no magic "hello, world" to get you started.

rday