DocBook Doclet is an open source and cross-platform graphical software implemented Java and designed from the offset to provide users with a set of utilities for creating DocBook XML documents from both Java source and HTML documentation files.
The application is also useful for those of you who want to generate reference handbooks of your APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), as well as to create class diagrams from Javadoc comments or to convert HTML documents to DocBook files.
Additionally, the DocBook Doclet project comes with a Java Swing application for managing documentation projects, as well as to effortlessly convert DocBook XML files into various formats, including PDF, JavaHelp and PostScript.
Getting started with DocBook Doclet
Installing the DocBook Doclet application on your GNU/Linux computer might be an easy task if your distribution supports either of the DEB or RPM package management systems, as the software is distributed as native installers for these OSes.Users of other distributions of Linux should download the binary tarball (TAR archive) or grab the source code and compile it. Please note that the latest version of the project works with Java 8 or later.
Under the hood
Taking a look under the hood of DocBook Doclet, we can notice that the application is written entirely in the Java programming language, which means that it supported under any operating system where the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Java Development Kit (JDK) technologies are available, including all GNU/Linux distributions, as well as the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows OSes.What is new in this release:
- Validation against the DocBook5 XSD Schema while constructing the document.
What is new in version 7.0.0:
- The javadoc doclet is now separated from GUI.
- The javadoc doclet is now released under the GPLv3.
- New configuration parameters.
- Improved cross references.
- Fixed processing of @inheritDoc tag.
- Minor fixes.
What is new in version 6.0.3:
- This version adds the parameter -useexternalfile=true to the javadoc ant task (CreateProcess error=206), fixes a jar version conflict in dbdoclet.jar (InvocationTargetException), and fixes path generation for dbdoclet projects.
What is new in version 6.0.2:
- Bugfixes and GUI improvements.
What is new in version 6.0.1:
- Generation of EPUB files was fixed, and images can now be embedded into the EPUB zip archive. Generation of JavaHelp was fixed.
- Relative referenced image files are incorporated into the base directory of HTML, JavaHelp and Eclipse Help.
- RTF and man pages are now supported.
- The generate.toc parameter is now supported, and the generation of ToC/LoTs is now configured using a special dialog.
- Customization files are now versioned.
- An upgrade was made to fop 1.0 and docbook-xsl 1.76.1.
- Support for Java 5 was discontinued.
What is new in version 5.2.5:
- Improved epub generation.
- Simple Editor for header and footer template.
- New Look and Feel for the HTML generation.
- Support for XSL-FO attribute text-indent.
- Support for XSL-FO attribute start-indent.
- Support for XSL-FO attribute end-indent.
- Fixed switching between projects.
- Fixed disabling of fo property sets.
- Fixed default table size.
- Fixed last recently used menu.
What is new in version 5.2.4:
- Maintenance release with minor fixes and improved HTML parser.
What is new in version 5.2.3:
- Integration of the DocBook XSL Reference as context sensitive help.
- Integration of the HTML to DocBook transformator.
- Replaced the old XIncluder with the Xerces feature.
- Support for the revhistory attribute sets.
- Fixed logo file chooser.
- Minor fixes.
What is new in version 5.2.2:
- New argument --ignore-annotation-documented (Doclet panel in GUI), which causes all annotations to be documented, regardless wether they have a @Documented annotation or not.
- Transformation of the @deprecated tag contents in the Deprecated API chapter.
- body.font.size is now loaded correctly from the DocBook XSL driver.
- Removed additional whitespace from initializer values.
- Added missing index to book type reference.
- Fixed generation of duplicate ids in conjunction with signatures containing arrays.
Requirements:
- Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment
- JFreeChart
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