Re: Updates on Docbook information

On Sat, Oct 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
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> > On 23 Oct 2026, at 22:40, Matemática A3K <matematica(dot)a3k(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > In https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/docguide-docbook.html it says:
> > "...
> > DocBook is maintained by the OASIS group. The [official DocBook site]
> > has good introductory and reference documentation and a complete
> > O'Reilly book for your online reading pleasure. The [FreeBSD
> > Documentation Project] also uses DocBook and has some good
> > information, including a number of style guidelines that might be
> > worth considering.
> > "
> > which caught my attention with:
> > - "DocBook is maintained by the OASIS group.": No longer true, see
> > https://docbook.org/
>
> If the TC was truly shut down, I would think the OASIS would remove the content
> or at least make some form of notice about that fact. The statements on
> docbook.org might be all true, but before redirecting links from authoritative
> sources I'd prefer a bit more context than an unsubstantiated claim.

FYI: https://groups.oasis-open.org/discussion/docbook-technical-committee-meeting-minutes-13sep2024

> > - "The [FreeBSD Documentation Project] also uses DocBook and has some
> > good information, including a number of style guidelines that might be
> > worth considering.": No longer true, it currently use asciidoc and
> > there are no references to docbook in the current website
>
> This part I do agree with, and I have pushed a removal of this sentence.

All the best,
Rodrigo

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> Daniel Gustafsson
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