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Oct/07

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Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML

Yay.. The Apache Camel project has started to generate some beautiful looking PDF documentation from standard HTML by using prince and the Boom style sheet against our wiki. We contacted the Boom folks and they cleared up the license terms of the Boom file so that it’s officially open source. The Boom folks have relicensed under the very liberal MIT license.

Update:
An interesting thread docbook and HTML is going on at The Server Side.

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5 Comments for Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML

Henri | October 2, 2007 at 2:27 pm

And Prince’s licensing?

Hiram Chirino | October 2, 2007 at 3:05 pm

Price has free Personal license for interactive use on a single computer.

See pricing for more info

jaaron | October 2, 2007 at 9:52 pm

Very nice.

I happen to like Docbook, but anything that improves documentation at Apache is a Good Thing.

Hopefully more projects will pick this up.

James Strachan | October 3, 2007 at 1:53 am

Yay! :)

Tobias | May 2, 2008 at 8:24 am

Well i just read your linked articles and had a look at the Prince license prices. Ok – who would pay prices like these?
I had a look at the GNU licensed java.net project. They try to achieve the same as Prince but haven’t yet tested both.

In my opinion you can rebuild this kind of functionality for FREE in a much easier way.

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