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<topic version="5.2" xml:id="intro" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
  <info>
    <title>What is XMLmind Assembly Processor?</title>
  </info>

  <para><productname trans:idfixup="auto" xml:id="dbasm"
  xmlns:trans="http://docbook.org/ns/transclusion">XMLmind Assembly
  Processor</productname> is a <trademark>Java</trademark> software component
  and a command-line utility (called <command>assembly</command>) which
  processes a <link xlink:href="https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.2/ch06"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">DocBook v5.1+ <tag
  class="element">assembly</tag></link> and all the referenced topics in order
  to create the equivalent “flat”, monolithic, document (e.g. a DocBook v5.2
  <tag class="element">book</tag>). This equivalent document is called the
  <firstterm>realized</firstterm> document.</para>

  <para>The realized document is then transformed to other formats (PDF, HTML,
  etc), normally, as if it were created by hand, using the <link
  xlink:href="https://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">DocBook XSL
  stylesheets</link>.</para>

  <para><xi:include href="" xpointer="dbasm" trans:idfixup="auto"
  xmlns:trans="http://docbook.org/ns/transclusion"
  xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> includes <link
  xlink:href="https://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude-11/"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">XInclude 1.1</link> and <link
  xlink:href="https://documents.docbook.org/transclusion"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">DocBook Transclusion</link>
  processors, which allows to create modular DocBook v5.1+ documents without
  facing limitations.</para>

  <para><xi:include href="" xpointer="dbasm" trans:idfixup="auto"
  xmlns:trans="http://docbook.org/ns/transclusion"
  xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> is free, open source, software,
  which like the <link xlink:href="https://docbook.sourceforge.net/"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">DocBook XSL stylesheets</link>,
  is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.</para>
</topic>
