!!!  Overview

This application generates a  DocBook XML file  of an 
executable  d3web  knowledge base, i.e., the knowledge base book. The DocBook 
XML can be used for further transformations. The application produces a 
PDF printout.
  
!!  Background

A knowledge base book contains the full version of  a  developed knowledge base 
generated automatically from the binary knowledge base file. It specifies all parts of 
the knowledge relevant for the reasoning process.
The indented use of a knowledge base book is primarily targeted to the review process 
of the knowledge base, i.e., manually reading, discussing, and verifying the developed 
knowledge. Additionally, the knowledge base book can be used as a reference for 
deployed knowledge bases and for presentation and demonstration purposes.

!!  Intended Use

The application should be operated by experienced users having  basic skills 
in command line execution.  The application was designed to be embedded into a 
continuous process, thus called by a script when  a new knowledge base is deployed. 
Since, the generated knowledge base book heavily  depends on the binary knowledge 
base, the resulting document should be bundled, when filed into a version control 
system. The proposed bundle is as follows:
#  The knowledge base book as PDF document.
#  The knowledge base as a d3web binary file.
#  The (archived) content of the wiki installation (to have a baseline, when 
review comments are fed back into the development system).

!! Example

In this example we provide a KnowledgeBaseBook for the knowledge base also provided on this page.

* [Link to Body-Mass-Index knowledge base|Body-Mass-Index]
* [Download KnowledgeBaseBook|Body-Mass-Index.pdf]