Editing DocBook (section)

{{Short description|Markup language for documentation}}
{{Infobox file format
| name = DocBook
| icon = 
| logo =
| extension = .dbk, .xml
| mime = application/docbook+xml
| type code = 
| uniform type = 
| magic = 
| owner = [[OASIS (organization)|OASIS]]
| genre = [[markup language]]
| container for = 
| contained by = 
| extended from = [[SGML]], [[XML]]
| extended to = 
| open = Yes
| standard = [http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.2/os/docbook-v5.2-os.html 5.2 (February 2024)],<br/>[http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/docbook-4.5-spec.html 4.5 (October 2006)]
}}

'''DocBook''' is a [[Semantics (computer science)|semantic]] [[markup language]] for technical [[documentation]]. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software, but it can be used for any other sort of documentation.<ref>[http://docbook.org/whatis What is DocBook?]</ref>

As a semantic language, DocBook enables its users to create [[separation of presentation and content|document content in a presentation-neutral form]] that captures the logical structure of the content; that content can then be published in a variety of formats, including [[HTML]], [[XHTML]], [[EPUB]], [[Portable Document Format|PDF]], [[Manual page (Unix)|man pages]], WebHelp<ref name="webhelp-1.76.1">[http://blog.kasunbg.com/2010/08/docbook-webhelp-project.html DocBook WebHelp Project]</ref> and [[Microsoft Compiled HTML Help|HTML Help]], without requiring users to make any changes to the source. In other words, when a document is written in DocBook format it becomes easily portable into other formats, rather than needing to be rewritten.