The DocBook Technical Committee has published the second test release of DocBook V5.0.

Interrupted by the holiday break, I've finally managed to pull together the 5.0b2 release of DocBook V5.0. This release corrects a few small bugs identified in V5.0 (and adds one new feature, truth be told):

  1. When SVG or MathML are used, allow more than one element from the respective namespace to be used in the appropriate location.

  2. Fixed RFE 1356238: the xrefstyle attribute on <olink> is now “text” rather than “xsd:IDREF”.

  3. Fixed RFE 1380477: Make xml:id optional on <area>s within <areaset>; allow linking attributes on <areaset>; establish the semantics that an <area> inside an <areaset> inherits its linking attributes from the <areaset> if it doesn't have linking attributes of its own.

  4. Allow <alt> inside <equation>, <informalequation>, and <inlineequation>.

  5. Fixed RFE 1356254: dbforms.rnc schema now supports the HTML form elements.

There are a few outstanding bugs directly related to V5.0 that have not been addressed yet:

  1. RFE 1358844 requests support for multiple <imageobject>s in an <imageobjectco>. I have an action to investigate this further. I'm concerned because different images could have different coordinates. But by the same token, they could have the same coordinates and then it's tedious to have to repeat them.

  2. RFE 1351109 asks us to put <structfield> and <structname> back. I have an action to write something up about how authors should deal with markup that's been removed. But secretly, I expect the right thing to do here is put them back.

  3. RFE 1306027 asks for support for aspect-oriented programming (in particular, annotations in Java™) in <classsynopsis> and friends. Suggestions solicited. (Every time a question comes up about the places where we've tried to model something, I wish we'd avoided the temptation to model.)

Keep testing and keep those bug reports coming!

I expect to update DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide later today or sometime over the weekend.

Comments:

Norm,

I don't know if you are aware of or even care about it, but the pdf versions of your blog essays don't handle long URLs very nicely. See the pdf of this essay for an example.

Posted by stand on 29 Mar 2006 @ 11:50pm UTC #
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