Her er en liten prosedyre, som illustrerer bruken av noen av de elementene som ble beskrevet i Kapittel 3.
<!DOCTYPE
bookPUBLIC
"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"[ ]> <book
> <title
> Working with DocBook </title
> <chapter
id="proceduralizing"> <title
> Creating a minimal source file </title
> <para
> With DocBook, your world gets clearer. I will describe files such as <filename
>docbook-example02.sgml</filename
>. The following procedure illustrates how to make one: </para
> <procedure
> <step
> <para
>Start a text editor such as <application>emacs</application>.</para
> </step
> <step
> <para
>Type the contents of your file. When you are done, save the file using the key sequence <keycombo
> <keycap
>Ctrl-x</keycap
> <keycap
>Ctrl-s</keycap
> </keycombo
> or the menu command <menuchoice
><guimenu
>File</guimenu
> <guimenuitem
>Save Buffer</guimenuitem
></menuchoice
>. </para
> <para
>If you did not supply a file name earlier, <application
>emacs</application
> will prompt you with the <computeroutput
>File to save in:</computeroutput
> message. Type a file name such as <userinput
>docbook-example02.sgml</userinput
>, then press <keycap
>Enter</keycap
> to save the file.</para
> </step
> <step
> <para
> To check that you have actually made a file, use the <command
>ls</command
> command: </para
> <screen
><computeroutput
>me@machine:~/docbook$</computeroutput
> <userinput
>ls -l</userinput
> -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 1702 May 23 14:54 docbook-example02.sgml </screen> </step
> </procedure
> <para
>When you have checked that you have a file, you can go on to <xref
linkend="nextstep">.</para
> </chapter
> <chapter
id=nextstep> <title
>The next step</title
> <para
>Here is what you want to do next …</para
> </chapter
> </book>
Resultatet: example02-plain.html eller example02-cooked.html