The DocBook Technical Committee has published the fourth test release of DocBook V5.0.
This release includes the changes agreed at the 15 Feb 2006 meeting and a number of other small edits designed to improve consistency in the schema.
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Fixed RFE 1416903: Added a <cover> element to hold additional material for document covers. Updated reference documentation.
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Corrected a typo in the list of values allowed on the class attribute of <biblioid>: changed “pubnumber” to “pubsnumber” (note the “s”). This is consistent with its use as a replacement for the <pubsnumber> tag that has been removed in DocBook V5.0.
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Fixed a bug in the content model of the various “<info>” elements. In previous beta releases, the title-related elements (<title>, <titleabbrev>, and <subtitle>) were erroneously required to appear first. The requirement is only that they appear exactly or at most once, depending on the context.
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Renamed the “sgmlcomment” attribute value of the class attribute of <tag>. There's no significant difference between XML and SGML comments and the “SGML” name implies that there ought to be an “xmlcomment” value, which there is not. The new value is simply “comment”.
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Renamed the “class” attribute of <refmiscinfo>. The DocBook semantics of class attributes is that they have enumerated values. This attribute should always have been called “type” as it is now.
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Updated renderas on <bridgehead> and class on <othercredit> to have “attribute/otherattribute” co-constraints. (In other words, if you select “other” for renderas on <bridgehead> or class on <othercredit>, you have to also provide a value for otherrenderas or othercredit, respectively.
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Changed width attribute in media objects to be “text” instead of “xs:integer”.
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Fixed bug in the build process that resulted in unusable XML Schema versions of beta 2 and beta 3.
I've once again updated DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide as well.
You know the drill: test, test, test. Please report any problems to <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>.
