David Sklar's weblog has a new quick posting about writing PHP books with Docbook.

Last November, I wrote an article for ONLamp.Com called Writing "Learning PHP 5" about the tools and PHP scripts I used to manage the Docbook XML source of my book Learning PHP 5. Sebastian Bergmann then wrote about how he used PHP and DocBook for his book Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit PHP 5.

There are plenty of similarities between what Sebastian and I did, but he has a few nice touches that I will adopt for next DocBook project, such as using XIncludes for code examples (makes building an archive of all the examples in the book a snap) and a snazzy build script that does things like syntax highlighting.

With something as simple as DocBook, all sorts of powerful tools, such as the XIncludes, making building archives of block of text in the book quick and painless...