Members Approve DocBook v4.5 as OASIS Standard
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| OASIS has said that its members have approved DocBook version
| 4.5 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest
| level of ratification. Widely adopted by technical writers
| since its introduction in 1991, DocBook provides an XML
| markup vocabulary for authoring and exchange of prose
| content, especially technical documentation.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/Application/Members_Approve_DocBook_v45_as_OASIS_Standard
Yesterday:
The Unicode Standard 5.0: An Appreciation
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| ...But there are other standards that go largely unheralded, and
| are developed by consortia that are virtually never in the news,
| despite the vast social and technical significance of the standard
| in question. Perhaps chief among them is the Unicode, created and
| constantly extended by the Unicode Consortium, whose loyal
| and widely distributed team of contributors for the most part
| labor quietly in the background of information technology.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061017163856508
This illustrates the importance of standards, which Open Source
(Linux included) heavility depends on, as well as encourages.
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