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<title>DocBook V5.0b7</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2006/07/28/docbook50b7</biblioid>
<volumenum>9</volumenum>
<issuenum>75</issuenum>
<pubdate>2006-07-28T08:34:19-04:00</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2006-07-28 09:12:44 -0400 (Fri, 28 Jul 2006) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2006</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>This is the seventh test release of DocBook V5.0.</para>
</abstract>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#DocBook"/>
</info>

<para xml:id="p1">This
<link xlink:href="http://docbook.org/xml/5.0b7/">release</link>
includes a few small improvements.</para>

<orderedlist>
<listitem xml:id="rfe.1520074">
<para xml:id="p7">Fixed <link xlink:href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;group_id=21935&amp;atid=384107&amp;aid=1520074">RFE 1520074</link>:
defined separate patterns for all the effectivity attributes to make
customization easier.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem xml:id="rfe.1512505">
<para xml:id="p8">Attempted to address
<link xlink:href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;group_id=21935&amp;atid=384107&amp;aid=1512505">RFE 1512505</link>:
added an <tag class="attribute">audience</tag> effectivity attribute.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem xml:id="msgaud">
<para xml:id="p9">Renamed <tag class="attribute">audience</tag>,
<tag class="attribute">origin</tag>, and <tag class="attribute">level</tag>
attributes
on <tag>simplemsgentry</tag> to <tag class="attribute">msgaud</tag>,
<tag class="attribute">msgorig</tag>, and <tag class="attribute">msglevel</tag>,
respectively. This is a better parallel with the descendent elements of
<tag>msgentry</tag> and avoids a conflict with the newly introduced
<tag class="attribute">audience</tag> effectivity attribute.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem xml:id="startinglinenumber">
<para xml:id="p10">Added <tag class="attribute">startinglinenumber</tag> attribute
to <tag>orderedlist</tag>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem xml:id="imagedata.fileref">
<para xml:id="p11">Fixed bug where one of <tag class="attribute">fileref</tag> or
<tag class="attribute">entityref</tag> was required on
<tag>imagedata</tag> even when the content was inline MathML or SVG.
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>

<para xml:id="p6">I think it's possible that the next release will be
“Candidate Release 1”. If you haven't tested V5.0 on your documents yet,
please do!</para>

</essay>

