====== Yagsbook ======

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**Yagsbook** is an XML format specifically designed for the mark up of roleplaying game content. It was originally based on [[http://www.docbook.org|DocBook]] which does much the same for technical documentation. A **Yagsbook** document can support multiple types of game systems (allowing d20 and GURPS content to be included side by side for example) and rendered to multiple output formats - currently HTML and PDF are supported.

The purpose of **Yagsbook** is that document content can be //structured// in such a way that accessing and manipulating it becomes easy. If a set of rules is written in //Microsoft Office//, then a chapter listing skills is just a sequence of text, possibly with some fancy headings. It is very difficult to do anything useful with that text - for example pull out a list of skills sorted by group, or filtered according to genre. With **Yagsbook** this becomes possible.

The best example of **Yagsbook** is probably the rules for **Yags** itself. This can be downloaded at [[http://yags.glendale.org.uk/download.jsp]]

Note that information is still in the process of being moved across from the old [[http://yagsbook.sourceforge.net/oldindex.html|Sourceforge]] hosted website. Much of the documentation is still on there, and needs to be moved into wiki form.

===== Contents =====

  * [[xml | Documentation]]
  * [[encyclopedia | Encyclopedia]]
  * [[equipment | Equipment Lists]]

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