Most of this book has been edited in a WikiWikiWeb powered by PhpWiki. PhpWiki is a PHP implementation of the concept of WikiWikiWeb, invented by Ward Cunningham in 1995, and famous for the simplicity of its text-based markup. The WikiWikiWeb pages have been converted to XHTML pages using the parser developed by the WikiML project, and these pages have been transformed through XSLT into DocBook for production at O'Reilly.

This is probably one of the first attempts to leverage something as simple to use as a WikiWikiWeb to produce something as complex as a whole book marked up as DocBook. I have been surprised by the smoothness of the whole process.

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