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<title>DocBook V5.0</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2009/11/04/docbook50</biblioid>
<volumenum>12</volumenum>
<issuenum>39</issuenum>
<pubdate>2009-11-04T10:55:29-08:00</pubdate>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
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<copyright>
      <year>2009</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>DocBook V5.0 is an OASIS Standard!</para>
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<para xml:id="p1">I
<link xlink:href="/2009/10/19/docbook50">reported</link> a couple of weeks
ago that the ballot to make DocBook V5.0 an OASIS Standard was open. I can
now report that the ballot is closed, it closed on 31 October.</para>

<para xml:id="p2">To my great satisfaction, I can also report that we easily cleared
the
<link xlink:href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2009-07-30.php#OASISstandard">process hurdles</link>.</para>

<para xml:id="p3">DocBook V5.0 is
<link xlink:href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200911/msg00001.html">officially</link> an
OASIS Standard.</para>

<para xml:id="p4">I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to help us get here:
users, reviewers, members of the Technical Committee (past and present),
and the OASIS members who voted for us, of course.</para>

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