Re: Moving to DocBook 4.1?

["Greg Ferguson" <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>]

On Jul 27,  3:39pm, Luis Villa wrote:
> Subject: Re: Moving to DocBook 4.1?
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Dan York wrote:
> > Question for you... given that DocBook version 4.1 has been out
> > since June 19th (http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ ) is there
> > any plan to move LDP docs over to that newer version of DB?
> >
> > I've got DocBook v3.1 installed on my system and have been using
> > that, but someone today just asked me why I'm not using 4.1...
> > and I guess my answer was that I've been following what the LDP
> > has been doing, which so far has been v3.1.
>
> Someone in my lug has actually made up some really nice 4.1 .deb files,
> and I've been sort of itching to try them, but I'm really unsure about
> what exactly the differences are between 3.1 and 4.1 and what I should
> expect to see change if I do switch over. Is anyone here knowledgeable
> enough about the differences to give a reasonably lucid explanation to a
> (pretty much) DocBook newbie? Of course, just a pointer to a URL (it
must
> exist somewhere) would be fine...

DocBook 4.1
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.1/index.html

Changes in 4.1 from 3.1
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.1/40chg.txt

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