docbook

Install command:
brew install docbook

Standard XML representation system for technical documents

https://docbook.org/

License: LicenseRef-Homebrew-cannot-represent

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/docbook.json

Formula code: docbook.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 5.2.1

Uses from macOS: libxml2

To use the DocBook package in your XML toolchain,
you need to add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

export XML_CATALOG_FILES="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/xml/catalog"

GitHub Packages downloads:

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