http://norman.walsh.name/2004/06/25/xml2004 7 108 2004-06-25T13:15:00-04:00 $Date: 2005-09-11 10:27:02 -0400 (Sun, 11 Sep 2005) $ Norman Walsh 2004 Norman Walsh XML 2004 is coming up. It’s time to get those papers written up, this year in DocBook! Lauren Wood has just announced that the XML 2004 conference plans to accept papers in a subset of DocBook this year (instead of the GCA Paper DTD used in the past). I think this is wonderful, but that’s hardly surprising. Tools support for DocBook is pretty good, so I’m guessing you’ll think it’s pretty wonderful too when you get down to it. The DocBook Wiki has some suggestions about tools and specifically authoring tools. I use Emacs and nXML myself. I’m helping figure out exactly what the conference subset should look like. The challenge is to achieve three goals simultaneously: make it simple (as few tags as possible), make it complete (all the tags you need), make it a subset of DocBook (so all the tools work off-the-shelf). Apropos of the conference, I’m happy to say that my proposal for a DocBook tutorial at XML 2004 has been accepted. Alas, that’s not going to be in time to help you get your papers ready this year, but think how well prepared you’ll be next year! See you in Washington, D.C.!