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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"
+[<!ENTITY % poky SYSTEM "../poky.ent"> %poky; ] >
+
+<book id='ref-manual' lang='en'
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
+      xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      >
+    <bookinfo>
+
+        <mediaobject>
+            <imageobject>
+                <imagedata fileref='figures/poky-title.png'
+                    format='SVG'
+                    align='left' scalefit='1' width='100%'/>
+            </imageobject>
+        </mediaobject>
+
+        <title>
+            Yocto Project Reference Manual
+        </title>
+
+        <authorgroup>
+            <author>
+                <firstname>Richard</firstname> <surname>Purdie</surname>
+                <affiliation>
+                    <orgname>Linux Foundation</orgname>
+                </affiliation>
+                <email>richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org</email>
+            </author>
+
+        </authorgroup>
+
+        <revhistory>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>4.0+git</revnumber>
+                <date>24 November 2010</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 0.9 Release</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
+                <date>6 April 2011</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.0 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.0.1</revnumber>
+                <date>23 May 2011</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.0.1 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
+                <date>6 October 2011</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.1 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.2</revnumber>
+                <date>April 2012</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.2 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.3</revnumber>
+                <date>October 2012</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.3 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.4</revnumber>
+                <date>April 2013</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.4 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.5</revnumber>
+                <date>October 2013</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.5 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.5.1</revnumber>
+                <date>January 2014</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.5.1 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.6</revnumber>
+                <date>April 2014</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.6 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.7</revnumber>
+                <date>October 2014</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.7 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.8</revnumber>
+                <date>April 2015</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.8 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.9</revnumber>
+                <date>October 2015</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.9 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+        </revhistory>
+
+    <copyright>
+      <year>&COPYRIGHT_YEAR;</year>
+      <holder>Linux Foundation</holder>
+    </copyright>
+
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>
+        Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
+        the terms of the <ulink type="http" url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England &amp; Wales</ulink> as published by Creative Commons.
+      </para>
+      <note>
+          For the latest version of this manual associated with this
+          Yocto Project release, see the
+          <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;'>Yocto Project Reference Manual</ulink>
+          from the Yocto Project website.
+      </note>
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    </bookinfo>
+
+    <xi:include href="introduction.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="usingpoky.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="closer-look.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="technical-details.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="migration.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="ref-structure.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="ref-classes.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="ref-tasks.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="ref-qa-checks.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="ref-images.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="ref-features.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="ref-variables.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="ref-varlocality.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="faq.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="resources.xml"/>
+
+<!--    <index id='index'>
+      <title>Index</title>
+    </index>
+-->
+
+</book>
+<!--
+vim: expandtab tw=80 ts=4
+-->