What This Document Is Not

Meant to be used as a kickstart into the matter (and to be an exercise playground for the author) this document can and will not be a detailed introduction regarding SGML, XML or DocBook. There is very good literature available for those topics (see Chapter 5). Furthermore it is not an introduction to markup languages as such. The reader is supposed to have some very basic knowledge regarding this topic. Having basically understood what's going on in the source of a HTML-document would be a good point to start.