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brew install docbook v5.2_1 LicenseRef-Homebrew-cannot-represent

XML markup language and toolchain for authoring technical documentation, books, and reference materials.

Why you might care

DocBook is a standard schema for structured technical writing with wide tool support (converters, validators, editors). Use it if you're authoring documentation that needs to be rendered to multiple formats (HTML, PDF, man pages) or published in technical/academic contexts. Primary value is as a build dependency for projects generating docs from structured markup.

Categories

documentation markup xml-tool parser

Alternatives

AsciiDoc reStructuredText Markdown DITA
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90-day · #664
55.6k
365-day · #633

Links

Caveats

To use the DocBook package in your XML toolchain,
you need to add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

export XML_CATALOG_FILES="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/xml/catalog"

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