#docbook — Public Fediverse posts

X’s all the way down. It’s a long and slightly convoluted story. And like all good stories, there are a couple of parts that are bit mad, but it comes together in the end just about perfectly. #DocBook #InvisibleXML #XML

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/07/29-x-stack

Easy come, easy go. That was a short-lived experiment, alas. #DocBook #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/05/25-docbook

XProc Gradle plugin. Announcing a new Gradle plugin for XProc that supports both XML Calabash and MorganaXProc-III. #XProc #MarkupMonday #Kotlin #Gradle #DocBook

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/05/04-gradle

Better CALS in DocBook. The DocBook xslTNG Stylesheets version 2.8.0 have better (and faster) CALS table processing. #XML #DocBook #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/04/27-docbook-cals

Allein #SVG und #MathML sind relevante Browser-basierte #XML-Technologien. #RSS / #Atom existieren ebenfalls.

#XSLT lebt auf dem Server weiter und hat in Version 3.0 (bald 4.0) primär für lokal angesiedelte Prozesse der Dokumentverarbeitung (#DITA, #DocBook, #TEI) eine ungebrochene Bedeutung. Zudem steht mit #SaxonJS eine Browser-Alternative zur Verfügung.

Pensionierte XMLer werden bestimmt ebenso gefragt sein wie im Fall von #COBOL.

DocBook list archives restored!. I’m pleased to report that the archives of the DocBook mailing lists at OASIS have been restored. #DocBook #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/04/13-docbook-archives

🎮📚 Ah, the riveting world of eight-year-old Nintendo DS programming #guides, because why play games when you can write a #DocBook manual on them! 🙄🕹️ This epic journey of revision history is almost as thrilling as reading a list of paint drying times. 🕰️✨
https://www.patater.com/files/projects/manual/manual.html #NintendoDS #ProgrammingGaming #RevisionHistory #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

@ndw Hopefully the <oXygen/> devs will implement it properly. #DocBook #XSLT

Sunsetting the XSLT 1.0 DocBook Stylesheets. Occasionally, I observe issues opened on the XSLT 1.0 stylesheets. That makes me uncomfortable, because I don’t think anyone is ever going to fix them. #XML #DocBook #XSLT

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/03/31-xslt10

DocBook 5.2.1. I’ve updated the website, the content distribution site, the Maven packages, the documentation, and published the releases. #XML #DocBook #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/03/23-docbook-5-2-1

So the time has come for me to write some proper documentation for xrust... does anyone have a recommendation for #docbook or #DITA editing? Not sure which to go with yet, my #XML knowledge is from the finance world. 😅

Would like to output some static files for hosting.

XML Typst. An experiment in typsetting from XML with Typst. #XML #MarkupMonday #HTML #DocBook #XProc

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/03/17-xml-typst

🧩 XML 🧩. I love how the pieces fit together. In this case, for a possibly mad idea about publishing with Typst. #XML #InvisibleXML #DocBook #Markdown #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/03/09-puzzle-pieces

DocBook 5.2.1ꞵ1. Testing the DocBook 5.2.1 release. #XML #DocBook

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/03/06-docbook

Towards DocBook 5.2.1. A backwards incompatible change slipped into DocBook 5.2. #XML #DocBook #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/03/02-docbook

DocBook spring cleaning. I dunno if it’s really spring yet, but I’ve tidied up a few DocBook-related websites. #DocBook #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/01/12-docbook

@phanthomas Interessant ist, dass die SuSE-Dokus mit #DocBook erstellt wurden, u. a. vom Autor eines Buches dazu.
https://www.data2type.de/xml-xslt-xslfo/docbook

DocBook xslTNG-gradle. Introducing a Gradle plugin for transforming DocBook documents with the xslTNG stylesheets. #DocBook #MarkupMonday #Gradle

https://so.nwalsh.com/2025/12/01-xsltng-gradle

DocBook updates. Updates to the DocBook xslTNG Stylesheets and my XProc-for-DocBook repository. #XML #XSLT #DocBook

https://so.nwalsh.com/2025/11/09-docbook

I am old enough to remember software development without a culture of tests and testing. Everytime the 1700+ tests for the #DocBook xslTNG stylesheets pass, I know that my changes are unlikely (and only "unlikely", more tests are always needed) to have [expletive] everything up. And it feels good.

xproc (for DocBook). Making it much easier to format DocBook documents. #XML #XSLT #DocBook #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2025/11/03-xproc-for-docbook

@gumnos you mean SGML right ? :) @bert_hubert #docbook

Got as far as writing the release notes for a new #DocBook #xslTNG release before remembering that I'll have to sort out the new Maven Central upload API before I can actually release it. Oh, look, a cold beer and a comfy chair! Maybe tomorrow.

@gnome
#GNOME powers libxml2 powers xsltproc powers #Docbook automation for Ada & Zangemann #FSFE book translation powers the next generation of #FOSS hackers https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann So yeah, donations matter! #AdaZangemann

I'm excited for the future of this project! Developed by #paligo

https://blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/
#xml #xlst #docbook

I tried validating #Docbook v5 using #xmllint from #libxml2 via #RelaxNG and #Schematron but wasn't successful. The RNG validation threw unexpected errors and the Schematron validation threw an internal error. It could be my source file, but it seems fine. Does somebody here have a working setup or tips to share?

The more I delve into #Docbook and #XSLT the more I start to love #XML As a source format it can be very expressive and customizable, plus you can reuse standard elements and attributes from others. Follow my journey here: https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann/issues/13#issuecomment-36782

DocBook xslTNG 2.5.0. Version 2.5.0 of the stylesheets is a major release with some (maybe) backwards incompatible changes. #DocBook #XSLT #XML

https://so.nwalsh.com/2024/11/17-xslTNG

@es0mhi @david_megginson Besides plain TeX, I also use DocBook XML with xslTNG stylesheets, and ndw who made these stylesheets is also editor of DocBook spec, had made an emacs library to dump XML representation of org-mode document, which might be interests to you https://github.com/ndw/org-to-xml

#XSLT #xslt3 #docbook