Introducing DocBook: DocBook Markup

Case Study: An Article

This is the DocBook XML source for an article.

<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
                  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<article>
<articleinfo>
  <title>An Example Article</title>
  <author>
    <firstname>Norman</firstname>
    <surname>Walsh</surname>
  </author>
  <copyright>
    <year>2001</year><holder>Sun Microsystems, Inc.</holder>
  </copyright>
  <confgroup>
    <confdates>04 Mar - 08 Mar 2001</confdates>
    <conftitle>WinWriters Online Help Conference</conftitle>
    <confnum>9</confnum>
  </confgroup>
</articleinfo>
<para>...</para>
<section><title>A Section</title>
<para>...</para>
</section>
<appendix><title>An Appendix</title>
<para>...</para>
</appendix>
</article>

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