NormanWalsh This document demonstrates the new tags in DocBook V4.0. The focus of this document is to present examples of new elements, minor changes such as the addition of new attribute values are not included. There's a new simple-alternative for msgentry: simplemsgentry. The text of a message An explanation of the message. The text of a message An explanation of the message. Longer descriptions are possible in a revhistory: 2 today nwalsh Here are a few paragraphs of description: Did some stuff. Did some other stuff. 1 yesterday nwalsh Here are a few paragraphs of description: Did some stuff. Did some other stuff. Ordered and itemized lists can have titles: First thing Second thing Third thing First thing Second thing Third thing Linespecific environments can indicate line numbering: <!ENTITY % linespecific.attrib "format NOTATION (linespecific) 'linespecific' linenumbering (numbered|unnumbered) #IMPLIED"> Added classsynopsis for documenting object-oriented programming language classes. Here's one example: public TextFileWriter HandlerBase private Writer writer public String writerName "MyWriter" static public write ResultTreeFragment frag String file SAXException The sgmltag element has new class attribute values: xmlpi and emptytag. These produce processing instructions and empty-tag markup suitable for XML.