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DocBook Benefits

single-source publishing—one source document, many target output formats
- print output (PostScript, PDF, RTF)
- Web output (HTML/XHTML, single page, chunked output)
- help systems (HTMLHelp, info, man, JavaHelp)
support fast software development cycle
- process of generating various output formats is fully automated
modular documents—content reuse
conditional documents
authors no longer have to worry about presentation