DocBook 5.0CR3
Hot on the heels of CR2 comes CR3, the third “canididate release” of DocBook 5.0.
This week, the DocBook Technical Committee decided to set a “feature freeze” date for DocBook V5.0. This sets us on a solid course for an official V5.0 release in the next couple of months. Any requests for enhancement received after 20 April 2007 will not be considered for DocBook V5.0. (Bug reports will, of course, continue to be addressed.)
The following RFEs have been accepted and incorporated into DocBook V5.0CR3:
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RFE 1679775: Changed semantics of
termdef
. Afirstterm
is now required (instead of aglossterm
as in previous releases). This allows the definition of one term to refer to another. -
RFE 1682917: Added
pgwide
attribute toexample
. -
RFE 1644553: Added
label
attribute to CALS and HTML tables. -
RFE 1588693: Added an
acknowledgements
element, peer todedication
, replacingackno
which had only been available at the end ofarticle
. -
After several months of consideration and experimentation, we decided to allow
info
in HTML tables. -
RFE 1673820: Adopted “
http://docbook.org/xlink/role/olink
” as an XLink role (that is, thexlink:role
attribute) value to identify OLinks expressed using XLink attributes.
You know the drill: download and test, test, test, please!