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====== YAGSbook ======

**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 potentially rendered to multiple output formats - currently only PDF is fully supported. Support for HTML is pretty much deprecated.

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** output is probably the rules for **YAGS** itself. This can be downloaded at [[https://yags-rpg.net/]].

The source for **YAGSbook** can be found at [[https://gitlab.com/samuelpenn/yagsbook|Gitlab]]

===== Contents =====

  * [[xml]]