A bibliography. A DocBook bibliography may contain some introductory information, but its main content is a set of bibliography entries (either biblioentry or bibliomixed). These may occur directly inside the bibliography element or inside bibliodiv elements.

The entries in a bibliography come in two general forms, “raw” and “cooked”. A raw entry is a database-like collection of named fields:

<bibliography xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>A Test Bibliography</title>

<bibliodiv><title>Books</title>

<biblioentry>
  <abbrev>AhoSethiUllman96</abbrev>
  <authorgroup>
    <author><personname>
      <firstname>Alfred V.</firstname><surname>Aho</surname>
    </personname></author>
    <author><personname>
      <firstname>Ravi</firstname><surname>Sethi</surname>
    </personname></author>
    <author><personname>
      <firstname>Jeffrey D.</firstname><surname>Ullman</surname>
    </personname></author>
  </authorgroup>
  <copyright><year>1996</year>
             <holder>Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.</holder></copyright>
  <editor><personname>
    <firstname>James T.</firstname><surname>DeWolf</surname>
</personname></editor>
  <biblioid class="isbn">0-201-10088-6</biblioid>
  <publisher>
    <publishername>Addison-Wesley Publishing Company</publishername>
  </publisher>
  <title>Compilers, Principles, Techniques, and Tools</title>
</biblioentry>

<biblioentry xreflabel="Kites75">
  <authorgroup>
    <author><personname>
      <firstname>Andrea</firstname><surname>Bahadur</surname>
    </personname></author>
    <author><personname>
      <firstname>Mark</firstname><surname>Shwarek</surname>
    </personname></author>
  </authorgroup>
  <copyright><year>1974</year><year>1975</year>
     <holder>Product Development International Holding N. V.</holder>
     </copyright>
  <biblioid class="isbn">0-88459-021-6</biblioid>
  <publisher>
    <publishername>Plenary Publications International, Inc.</publishername>
  </publisher>
  <title>Kites</title>
  <subtitle>Ancient Craft to Modern Sport</subtitle>
  <pagenums>988-999</pagenums>
</biblioentry>

</bibliodiv>
<bibliodiv><title>Periodicals</title>

<biblioentry>
  <abbrev>Walsh97</abbrev>
  <biblioset relation='journal'>
    <title>XML: Principles, Tools, and Techniques</title>
    <publisher>
      <publishername>O'Reilly &amp; Associates, Inc.</publishername>
    </publisher>
    <biblioid class='issn'>1085-2301</biblioid>
    <editor><personname>
      <firstname>Dan</firstname><surname>Connolly</surname>
    </personname></editor>
  </biblioset>
  <biblioset relation='article'>
    <title>A Guide to XML</title>
    <author><personname>
      <surname>Walsh</surname><firstname>Norman</firstname>
    </personname></author>
    <copyright><year>1997</year><holder>ArborText, Inc.</holder></copyright>
    <pagenums>97-108</pagenums>
  </biblioset>
</biblioentry>

</bibliodiv>

</bibliography>

A cooked entry is formatted, including additional text, so that it is easy to render.

<bibliography xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>References</title>

<bibliomixed>
  <bibliomset relation='article'>Walsh, Norman.
    <title role='article'>Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets</title>.
  </bibliomset>
  <bibliomset relation='journal'>
    <title>The World Wide Web Journal</title> 
    <volumenum>2</volumenum><issuenum>1</issuenum>.
    <publishername>O'Reilly &amp; Associates, Inc.</publishername> and
    The World Wide Web Consortium. Winter, 1996</bibliomset>.
</bibliomixed>

</bibliography>