LinuxDoc is an

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DTD which is similar to

DocBook DocBook is a 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. As a semantic languag ...

. It was created by

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and version 1.1 was announced in 1994. It is primarily used by the

Linux Documentation Project The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) is a dormant an all-volunteer project that maintains a large collection of GNU and Linux-related documentation and publishes the collection online. It began as a way for hackers to share their documentation wit ...

. The DocBook SGML tags are often longer than the equivalent LinuxDoc tags. LinuxDoc has a more succinct DTD than DocBook. Users of small to medium-size projects have found that it suits their purposes better than DocBook.alt.cyberpunk: "About the FAQ"
2000-12-07 The

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distribution of

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has a linuxdoc-tools package.

External links

* http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html
A JavaScript based web page that generates LinuxDoc
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Sample of LinuxDoc generated with above generator
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References

Markup languages {{Linux-stub

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