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+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+
+<book id='bitbake-user-manual' lang='en'
+        xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
+        xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+        >
+    <bookinfo>
+
+        <mediaobject>
+            <imageobject>
+                <imagedata fileref='figures/bitbake-title.png'
+                    format='SVG'
+                    align='left' scalefit='1' width='100%'/>
+            </imageobject>
+        </mediaobject>
+
+        <title>
+            BitBake User Manual
+        </title>
+
+        <authorgroup>
+            <author>
+                <firstname>Richard Purdie, Chris Larson, and </firstname> <surname>Phil Blundell</surname>
+                <affiliation>
+                    <orgname>BitBake Community</orgname>
+                </affiliation>
+                <email>bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org</email>
+            </author>
+        </authorgroup>
+
+<!--
+# Add in some revision history if we want it here.
+        <revhistory>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>x.x</revnumber>
+                <date>dd month year</date>
+                <revremark>Some relevent comment</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>x.x</revnumber>
+                <date>dd month year</date>
+                <revremark>Some relevent comment</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>x.x</revnumber>
+                <date>dd month year</date>
+                <revremark>Some relevent comment</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>x.x</revnumber>
+                <date>dd month year</date>
+                <revremark>Some relevent comment</revremark>
+            </revision>
+       </revhistory>
+-->
+
+        <copyright>
+            <year>2004-2015</year>
+            <holder>Richard Purdie</holder>
+            <holder>Chris Larson</holder>
+            <holder>and Phil Blundell</holder>
+        </copyright>
+
+        <legalnotice>
+            <para>
+                This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
+                To view a copy of this license, visit
+                <ulink url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/</ulink>
+                or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street,
+                Suite 900, Mountain View, California 94041, USA.
+            </para>
+        </legalnotice>
+    </bookinfo>
+
+    <xi:include href="bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="bitbake-user-manual-hello.xml"/>
+
+</book>