User's Manual

VirtueMart User Manual

You can send your code snippets, hints and anything else helpful to the Homepage of the project:

http://virtuemart.net [http://VirtueMart.net].

There's also an active Forum, where discussion and bug reporting can take place: Forum [http://

www.VirtueMart.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=71].

8.3. The Documentation

This documentation was written using XMLMind XML Editor [http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor]

using the DocBook [http://www.docbook.org] XML Format.

DocBook defines a set of markup elements useful for marking up text so that the text can then be

transformed into several different formats. It's possible to create documents in different formats: PDF,

HTML, HTML Help (.chm Files for Windows Help), XML, RTF, TeX, WordML (Word 2003) and

others. The author of this document uses eDE [http://docbook.e-novative.de/] for generating the End-

User documents. The idea is to write just once and reach the largest possible number of people with

the information. Digital information not stored properly tends to get lost. Due to the fact that not

containing uncommon characters (such as binary formats) it's possible to index and search directly on

the documents written on SGML and consequently on DocBook. The SGML systems use markups

to make their description. DocBook holds over 300 markup elements each one with several attributes

which can assume several values, these can be fixed or defined by the document / style that the author

has used.