6. Using XML DocBook (A)

The standard format for the documentation of Open-Source applications;

Separating content from presentation is crucial for constantly evolving material;

Allows easy use of single-sourcing techniques for different documents;

provides many output formats out of the box, cosmetic changes are easy to perform.

Furthermore a lot of open source tools and libraries allow to process XML: xsltproc, openjade, jadetex, perl-XML, etc.

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