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<title>The DocBook Document Type</title>
-<productnumber>Version 4.2 Candidate Release 1</productnumber>
+<productnumber>Version 4.2 Candidate Release 2</productnumber>
<subtitle>OASIS DocBook Technical Committee</subtitle>
<authorgroup>
<editor>
</affiliation>
</editor>
</authorgroup>
-<pubdate>19 Mar 2002</pubdate>
+<pubdate>21 May 2002</pubdate>
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$Id$
</releaseinfo>
</abstract>
<revhistory>
+<revision role="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook-4.2-CR2.html">
+ <revnumber>Candidate Release 2</revnumber>
+ <date>21 May 2002</date>
+</revision>
<revision role="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook-4.2-CR1.html">
<revnumber>Candidate Release 1</revnumber>
<date>19 Mar 2002</date>
</section>
<section id="docbook">
-<title>The DocBook Document Type V4.2b2</title>
+<title>The DocBook Document Type V4.2CR2</title>
<para>The DocBook document type is distributed for
<ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/">XML</ulink> and
<ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/">OASIS</ulink>
</para>
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-<title>DocBook SGML</title>
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-<listitem>
-<para>Public identifier: -//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.2b2//EN
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>System identifier: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.2b2/docbook.dtd
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-<section>
-<title>DocBook XML</title>
+<section id="s.changes2">
+<title>Changes in DocBook V4.2CR2</title>
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>Public identifier: -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2b2//EN
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>System identifier: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2b2/docbookx.dtd
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-<section>
-<title>DocBook Notations</title>
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-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>Public identifier: -//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook Notations V4.2b2//EN
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-<section>
-<title>DocBook Character Entities</title>
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-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>Public identifier: -//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook Character Entities V4.2b2//EN
-</para>
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-<section>
-<title>DocBook Information Pool</title>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>Public identifier: -//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook Information Pool V4.2b2//EN
-</para>
-</listitem>
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-<section>
-<title>DocBook Hierarchy</title>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>Public identifier: -//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook Document Hierarchy V4.2b2//EN
+<para>There are no backwards-incompatible changes in this release.
</para>
-</listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
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-</section>
+<para>Each of the changes made between DocBook V4.2CR1 and DocBook V4.2CR2
+is summarized here.</para>
-<section>
-<title>DocBook General Entities</title>
+<section id="s.bugs2">
+<title>Bug Fixes</title>
<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>Public identifier: -//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook Additional General Entities V4.2b2//EN
-</para>
+<listitem><para>The <sgmltag class="paramentity">local.info.class</sgmltag>
+reference was added to <sgmltag class="paramentity">info.class</sgmltag>.
+Its absence was an oversight, it should always have been there.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem><para>The <literal>SVG</literal> notation was added to
+<sgmltag class="paramentity">notation.class</sgmltag>.
+Its absence was an oversight, it should always have been there.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Changed the mechanism for identifying incorrectly
+configured DocBook customization layers. In DocBook V4.2CR1, if a
+customization layer incorrectly enabled both
+<sgmltag class="paramentity">sgml.features</sgmltag> and
+<sgmltag class="paramentity">xml.features</sgmltag>, the DTD was syntactically
+invalid. This caused problems for certain kinds of DTD parsing tools
+that ignore marked sections.</para>
+
+<para>Instead of producing a syntax error, the new mechanism simply points all
+of the DTD modules to a file that contains no declarations. The content of this
+file, <ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/configerror.txt"/>,
+explains the cause of the error.</para>
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</section>
<section id="s.changes">
-<title>Changes in DocBook V4.2b2</title>
-
-<para>There are no backwards-incompatible changes in this release.
-</para>
+<title>Changes in DocBook V4.2CR1</title>
<para>Each of the changes made between DocBook V4.1 and DocBook XML V4.1.2
is summarized here. For complete details, consult the individual RFEs and
<listitem><para>Sabine Ocker</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Michael Sabrio</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Michael Smith</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Tim Teebken (prospective)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Norman Walsh (Chair, Editor)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>