Tutorial

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Download this tutorial in source form (.zip archive containing .html, .png, .swf, etc, files) and in PDF, Office Open XML (.docx, can be opened in Word 2007+) or OpenOffice (.odt, can be opened in OpenOffice.org 2+) formats from this page.

Before following this tutorial

Except for the first few ones, this tutorial is organized in largely independent, short, lessons. Almost all lessons contain a short (less than 1mn) screencast. It's strongly recommended to take the time to read the text of the lesson before watching the corresponding screencast.

We'll almost exclusively use DocBook 5 examples in these lessons. This does not mean that this tutorial is about DocBook support in XMLmind XML Editor. Everything you'll learn in this tutorial applies to all document types: DITA, XHTML, etc. We have chosen DocBook mainly because this document type uses self-descriptive names for its elements: para for a paragraph, itemizedlist of an itemized list, etc. Prior knowledge of DocBook is not required in order to follow this tutorial.

If you find that this tutorial is too comprehensive and don't have enough time to follow it, we nevertheless recommend to read (no screencasts) this minimal tutorial.

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