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DocBook V5.0CR2

Volume 10, Issue 19; 14 Mar 2007; last modified 08 Oct 2010

The second “candidate release” of DocBook V5.0.

This release is the second “candidate release” of DocBook V5.0. We've resolved a few more RFEs:

  1. Fixed RFE 1630203: Allow empty glossary.

  2. Fixed RFE 1627845: Allow optional caption on CALS table and informaltable.

  3. Related to RFE 1627845: Allow inlines in HTML table caption.

  4. Fixed RFE 1589139 (and RFE 1621178): Allow title and titleabbrev on qandaentry.

  5. Fixed RFE 1675932: Restore localname, prefix and namespace as class attribute values on tag.

  6. Fixed RFE 1669465: Schematron rules should refer to @xml:id, not @id.

At some point real soon now, we're going to have to declare V5.0 “feature complete”. Sooner rather than later, I hope.