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 <chapter>
  <title>
   The Selfdocbook (XML edition) itself
  </title>

  <para>The &sdb; is a self-documenting introduction to DocBook DocBook
   (XML) book.  It includes its own DocBook XML source in the <link
   linkend="source">appendix</link>, and so can be used to learn
   DocBook by example.</para>

  <para>You can get a copy of the &sdb; in various ways; presumably you
   already know one of them since you are reading the &sdb; right now.
   Here are the choices:</para>

  <itemizedlist>
   <listitem>
    <para>View it using a web browser, by pointing it to the <ulink
     url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/selfdocbookx/index.html"
     >&sdb; web page</ulink>.</para>
   </listitem>

   <listitem>
    <para>Grab the <ulink
     url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/selfdocbookx.ps">PostScript
     version</ulink>, ready to print out.</para>
   </listitem>

   <listitem>
    <para>Download the <ulink
     url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/selfdocbookx.pdf">PDF
     version</ulink>, if that's your preferred format.</para>
   </listitem>

   <listitem>
    <para>Fetch the <ulink
     url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/selfdocbookx.tar.gz">DocBook
     XML source</ulink> and build it.</para>
   </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>

  <para>You can use the &sdb; to learn DocBook by example: if you see
   something that you want to know how to do, you can simply flip to
   <xref linkend="source"/> to find out how it is done.</para>

  <para>I learned DocBook from the excellent book <citetitle>DocBook:
   The Definitive Guide</citetitle> by O'Reilly Associates,
   also <ulink url="http://docbook.org/tdg/html/docbook.html">available
   online</ulink>.  It is probably a good idea to have a glance
   through that in order to get more of an overview than this book
   provides.</para>

  <para>This &sdb; was built on &builddate;.</para>
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