From the webpage:

"DocBook is an XML/SGML vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).

The DocBook Technical Committee maintains the DocBook schema. DocBook is officially available as a Document Type Definition (DTD) for both XML and SGML. It is unofficially available in other forms as well."

The Technical Committee

http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/

O'Reilly Site:

http://www.docbook.org/

the Linux Documentation Project:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/

One of the things that DocBook doesn't have at the moment is a simple, multi-platform editor. One suggestion (as in one person has suggested on this website) is to allow saving a WikkiTikkiTavi page into DocBook format. The XML format of both suggests this would not be difficult, and the format concepts (both style and structure) of wikis and DocBook are closely related. DocBook is a little more strructured than your average wikki, but is that a bad thing? Could that not help structure wiki pages that are wanting, while not forcing structure on wiki pages that do not want or need it.

Curtis, off the top of my head that sounds really cool. That was part of the motivation for the 0.10 => 0.20 rewrite, to abstract the presentation engine. Separate form from function and all that. :-) So, in theory, you could plug in a DocBook rendering engine structured along similar lines to the HTML engine, and you'd be all set. I really don't know much about DocBook, but it sounds pretty neat from how you've described it. Must take a look-see. -- ScottMoonen

Hmm. Lets see what the structure might look like.

At some point you need an action that points to a article page or book page and gives the option to output into a ps, text, pdf, or an xml document.

See also PhpWiki:DocBook.