1. Introduction

   1. Chapter 1 Getting Started with DocBook

      1. A Short DocBook History
      2. DocBook V5.0
      3. Finally in a Namespace
      4. Relaxing with DocBook
      5. Why Switch to DocBook V5.0?
      6. Schema Jungle
      7. Backward Compatibility

   2. Chapter 2 Creating DocBook Documents

      1. Making an XML Document
      2. Physical Divisions: Breaking a Document into Separate Files
      3. Logical Divisions: The Categories of Elements in DocBook
      4. Roots: Starting Your DocBook Document
      5. Making a DocBook Book
      6. Making a Chapter
      7. Making an Article
      8. Making a Reference Page
      9. Making Front and Back Matter

   3. Chapter 3 Validating DocBook Documents

      1. ID/IDREF Constraints and Validation
      2. Validating Your Documents
      3. Understanding Validation Errors

   4. Chapter 4 Publishing DocBook Documents

      1. A Survey of Stylesheet Languages
      2. Using XSL to Publish DocBook Documents

   5. Chapter 5 Customizing DocBook

      1. Should You Do This?
      2. If You Change DocBook, It’s Not DocBook Anymore!
      3. Customization Layers
      4. Writing, Testing, and Using a Customization Layer
      5. Removing Elements
      6. Removing Attributes
      7. Adding Elements
      8. Adding Attributes
      9. Other Modifications

2. Reference

3. Appendixes

   1. Appendix Installation

      1. Installing DocBook

   2. Appendix DocBook Variants and Future Directions

      1. DocBook Variants
      2. Future Directions

   3. Appendix Resources

      1. Latest Versions of DocBook Schemas
      2. DocBook and XML Resources on the Web
      3. Introductory Material on the Web
      4. References and Technical Notes on the Web
      5. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendations
      6. Related Standards
      7. Internet RFCs
      8. Books and Printed Resources
      9. XML Tools

   4. Appendix Interchanging DocBook Documents

   5. Appendix GNU Free Documentation License

1. Glossary

2. Colophon

The animal on the cover of DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide is a wood duck (Aix sponsa), also known as a Carolina duck. Often considered one of the most beautiful ducks in North America, the male wood duck has a metallic purple and green head with white streaks extending from its bill around the eyes and down to its blue and green, gold-flecked wings. It has a white neck, a chestnut-colored chest, a white or red bill, and yellow-orange legs and feet. Females have more brown, gray, and subdued hues.

The cover image is from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSansMonoCondensed