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This is the initial release of docbookeasy. I have tried to make the installation easy, so that it can be installed without too much efforts.

Importing a book into the system and displaying it should work for any DocBook document. Converting it to other formats should work as well.
However, edit/approve does not work yet, adding media files (images) does not work, etc.

DocBookEasy has basically the same idea as DocBookWiki, however it chunks the document in a different way. The new way of chunking the document is by using the <xi:include> tags, so the chunks connect naturally to each-other and all of them form a stand-alone DocBook document (while each of them remains a valid DocBook document on itself). So, there is no need for imploding (concating all the chunks), in order to process the whole document (for example converting to another format). It can be done simply by processing the root chunk. This eliminates the need for some "tricks" that are used in DocBookWiki.... read more

The most important change in this release is the improvment
of the installation ('chown' was eliminated). The are some
bug fixes from the previous release and some small improvments
as well. Some of the improvments are:
- The default book can be different from docbookwiki_guide.
- The menu of books is now optional.
- The tags <preface> and <appendix> can be handled as well.
- The info (<bookinfo>/<articleinfo>) is now in a separate page.

The version 0.9 of DocBookWiki is released.
DocBook Wiki is a web application that is used
to display and to edit online DocBook documents.

I have tried to fix all the parts that didn't work well and there are also some small improvments. In general it should be easier to install and it should be usable as well.

The version 0.8.9 of DocBookWiki is released.
DocBook Wiki is a web application that is used
to display and to edit online DocBook documents.

This is the first release after a long time (more than 1 year)
and it contains many improvments. For more details check the
change log or the file ToDo.txt.

Different from the previous releases, this one includes as
many things as possible (even the packages of some external
tools), in order to make the installation as easy as possible.
This is the reason that the size of the package is too big
(about 10MB) compared to the previous releases. It is intended
for people that don't have too much time to spend with
installing it; the technical people that like to do
everything themselves from the scratch can get the source
code from subversion and install it manually.... read more

The most important changes of this release are these:

1 - Support for i18n/l10n (translating the application to other languages).

2 - Validating a section at the time when it is saved.

3 - Editing <bookinfo> and <articleinfo> in TextWiki mode.

4 - Improved menu editing (with copy/paste).

5 - Improved xref.php for modes other than view (edit, admin, etc.)

6 - Superuser can create/import new books/articles from a web interface.

The most important change in this release is replacement of CVS by SVN and reorganization of content directory names. Since not everything is tested carefully, any bug fixing or small improvments are expected in the release 0.8.1.

DocBook Wiki is a web application that is used to display and to edit online DocBook documents. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/doc-book/

This release includes some improvments and bug fixes. The most important improvments are:
- documentation (for users, administrators and developers)
- generation of downloadable files
- installation

Now DocBookWiki is usable and somehow stable, although not yet perfect. There are still some unfixed known bugs (and maybe many others that are not known yet). There are also some things that need improvment. ... read more

Multi-language support added, each book can be in different languages.

The next release (0.6) is going to come after some time of testing, so
that any bugs are discovered and fixed, any improvements are made
etc. So, it is going to be like a stable release, with minor improvments
and no major features added.

Some of the expected improvments are:
- implementation of text mode editing
- improvment of html and xml editing modes (mostly any bug fixes)
- improvment of user documentation and code documentation
- regeneration of downloadables will be done more efficiently... read more

DocBook Wiki is a web application that is used to display and to edit online DocBook documents. http://doc-book.sourceforge.net/

The release 0.3 is usable; with not too much difficulties
it can be installed and configured to work (maybe needs
any small modifications first). The status of the project
has been changed to 'alpha'.

In this release is implemented the modification of the
structure of the document and the search.... read more

DocBook documents can be displayed, and also the content of the sections can be modified (edited) online. Other formats can be generated automatically as well.