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diff --git a/textproc/docbook-xml/DESCR b/textproc/docbook-xml/DESCR index 44f02f3c1be..a030a44f923 100644 --- a/textproc/docbook-xml/DESCR +++ b/textproc/docbook-xml/DESCR @@ -1,13 +1,8 @@ - The DocBook DTD defines structural and content-based SGML markup -for computer documentation, with a primary emphasis on software -documentation and related classes of technical documents. Its -main high-level hierarchical structures are for books, reference -entries (for example, ``man pages''), and articles. It is -maintained by the Davenport Group (about which see the Davenport -archive at http://www.ora.com/davenport/ or -ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/). +DocBook provides a system for writing structured documents using +SGML or XML. It is particularly well-suited to books and papers +about computer hardware and software, though it is by no means +limited to them. - This package contains DocBook XML V4.1.2, released 27 Aug 2000. - - Some documentation for DocBook is available in ASCII and PDF -at http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/docbook/ +In short, DocBook is an easy-to-understand and widely used DTD. +Dozens of organizations use DocBook for millions of pages of +documentation, in various print and online formats, worldwide. |