Author:
Alberto González Téllez
Affiliation:
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Keyword(s):
Teaching document production, document management, Docbook, XML.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Authoring Tools and Content Development
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Computer-Supported Education
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e-Learning
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Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Software Tools for e-Learning
;
Web-Based Teaching and Learning Technologies
Abstract:
Document production is an important aspect of academic activity. Nowadays the most common tools used
to create teaching documents are office suites and e-learning oriented authoring applications. We found that
none of these options fulfill our requirements of content repository management, content filtering and
presentation format selection, and last but not least being open and free. Docbook is a book production
oriented XML compliant language, so it has the capability of using the standard XML processing tools like
XSLT, XPath, XInclude and XQuery. The main parts of Docbook (DTD and stylesheets) are open source.
These basic components can be customized and complemented in order to get adapted to application
requirements and final users. After some years of experience using Docbook to produce our teaching
material we found productive tools and we developed some Docbook customizations.