The Selfdocbook itself

The Selfdocbook is a self-documenting introduction to DocBook DocBook book. It includes its own DocBook SGML source in the appendix, and so can be used to learn DocBook by example.

You can get a copy of the Selfdocbook in various ways; presumably you already know one of them since you are reading the Selfdocbook right now. Here are the choices:

• View it using a web browser, by pointing it to the Selfdocbook web page.

• Grab the PostScript version, ready to print out.

• Fetch the DocBook SGML source and build it.

You can use the Selfdocbook to learn DocBook by example: if you see something that you want to know how to do, you can simply flip to the appendix called DocBook SGML source to find out how it is done.

I learned DocBook from the excellent book DocBook: The Definitive Guide by O'Reilly Associates, also available online. It is probably a good idea to have a glance through that in order to get more of an overview than this book provides.

This Selfdocbook was built on 3 June 2001.