DocBook was built as an application to write technical documents related to computer hardware and software. It is a semantic markup language that was extended from XML language. As an open source application, DocBook has been adopted as a standard to write other types of documentation as well. The current version of DocBook, published by O'Reilly Media and XML Press, is 5.1.

The Report Wizard’s DocBook engine enables you to input the VTL codes inside DocBook’s document content. It also allows you to convert HTML into DocBook tags, rearrange tags, and escape special characters. Report Wizard uses “dbk” and “docbook” file extensions to save DocBook files. The figure below shows the DocBook’s document content.

A DocBook Template