Encoding Your First Assignment in DocBook

Remember:

You are writing about documents. You are encoding your writing. You are not encoding the documents you are writing about.

Requirements:

  • Your submission must be encoded in the Balisage customization of DocBook.
  • It must be valid against the Balisage schema (the .rng file).
  • It must be rooted on the <article> element.
  • It must have a <title> element with a meaningful title.
  • It must have complete metadata captured in the <info> element.
  • The <info> element must have these children elements with appropriate information in the text nodes, and those children must have any child elements required by the schema.
    • <abstract>
    • <author>
  • Your submission must have at least two <section> elements and all required child elements of <section>.
  • Your submission must have a <bibliography> element with at least one child <bibliomixed> element with appropriate content.
  • Your submission must have at least one <citation> element that points to an item in the bibliography.
  • Your submission must use at least one of these elements to present information: <table>, <informaltable>, or <itemizedlist>.
  • Your file must have a filename without spaces! Use underscores and/or camelCase.