DocBook V5.1b8
DocBook 5.1β8 has been published.
Shortly before the new year, I published
DocBook 5.1b8 and the
corresponding version of
DocBook 5.1: The Definitive Guide.
The largest change in 5.1 is the introduction of support for topic-based authoring
through the addition of the topic
element and the assembly
structure. For more information about assemblies, see
Chapter 6.
DocBook Assemblies in The Definitive Guide.
This release fixes significant, longstanding errors in XLink support and attempts to address accessibility in CALS tables.
To date, DocBook V5.1 addresses the following requests for enhancement:
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RFE 1679665 Add better support for modular documentation.
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RFE 1722935 Add a
proofreader
value to theclass
attribute forothercredit
. -
RFE 1770787 Add
givenname
as an alternative forfirstname
. -
RFE 1899655 Allow more elements to be the root of a DocBook document.
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RFE 2100736 Allow
constant
ininitializer
. -
RFE 2791288 Added several additional elements, including
quote
, to the ubiquitous inlines. -
RFE 2820190 Add a
topic
element. -
RFE 2821653 Remove the constraint that
indexterm
elements must not appear infootnote
s. -
RFE 2907124 Allow personal name components directly in
bibliomset
. -
RFE 2907125 Allow all inlines in
remark
. -
RFE 2907131 Allow
simplesect
incolophon
. -
RFE 2964576 Fix the bug that allowed
table
to appear insideentry
. -
RFE 3064674 Make sure
abstract
isn't lost during the DocBook 4-to-5 upgrade indb4-upgrade.xsl
. -
RFE 3150303 Broaden content model of
contrib
. -
RFE 3171553 Allow
dedication
inarticle
. -
RFE 3174769 Added
securitycontext
andother
tosystemitem
. -
RFE 3199793 Allow XInclude to be used in
set
. Also allowed in more places. Tweaked XInclude pattern to allow foreign, namespace-qualified attributes in preparation for XInclude 1.1. -
RFE 3227210 Fix HTML
informaltable
attributes. -
RFE 3274136 Allow
production
to contain more than onerhs
. -
RFE 3287339 Support “
istc
as aclass
attribute value onbiblioid
. -
RFE 3368279 Make content optional in components and sections.
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RFE 3384939 Fix XLink support. Allow extended links and other link types.
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RFE 3390036 Allow
tag
elements to nest. -
RFE 3406169 Allow multiple
procedure
elements intask
. -
RFE 3500814 Added
pgwide
attribute toinformalexample
andinformalequation
. -
RFE 3517981 Remove spurious, duplicate “
other
value fromothercredit
. -
RFE 3530659 Allow admonitions in formal objects.
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RFE 3531365 Allow navigation components at the beginnings of sections.
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RFE 3540409 Added
altgr
andreturn
values to thefunction
attribute onkeycap
-
RFE 3547943 Don't allow
secondary
without aprimary
inindexterm
. -
RFE 3571149 Allow
article
inset
.
The following issues are also addressed:
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Added accessibility attributes to CALS tables.
-
Added
outputformat
as a common effectivity attribute. -
Fixed bug in Schematron assertions (several conditions were reversed).
-
Improve support for multimedia. Added
autoplay
andclassid
attributes toaudiodata
andvideodata
. Addedmultimediaparam
, allowed inaudioobject
andvideoobject
. -
Allow
link
inextendedlink
. See backwards incompatible changes planned for DocBook V6.0;arc
andlocator
will be removed. -
Changed Schematron namespace to official ISO Schematron URI.
Share and enjoy, and please do report any problems that you encounter.