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<book id="doctrinebook">

  <bookinfo>
    <title>Doctrine Documentation</title>
    <author>
      <firstname>Ian</firstname>
      <surname>Christian</surname>
      <email>pookey@pookey.co.uk</email>
    </author>
    <copyright>
      <holder>Doctrine Project</holder>
      <year>2007</year>
    </copyright>
    <legalnotice id="legalnotice">
      <para>
        The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons
        <ulink url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">Attribution-ShareAlike License</ulink>.
      </para>
    </legalnotice>

    <abstract>
      <para>
        Documentation for the PHP Doctrine project
      </para>
    </abstract>
  </bookinfo>

  <chapter id="introduction">
    <title>Introduction</title>
    <para>
    </para>

    <sect1 id="requirements">
      <title>Requirements</title>
      <para>
        Doctrine requires PHP >= 5.1, and it doesn't require any external libraries.
      </para>
      <para>
        For database abstraction Doctrine uses PDO which is bundled with php by
        default. Doctrine also requires a little adodb-hack for table creation,
        which comes with doctrine.
      </para>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="getting-started">
      <title>Getting Started</title>
      <para>
        The installation of doctrine is very easy. Just get the latest revision of Doctrine from
        <ulink url="http://doctrine.pengus.net/svn/trunk">http://doctrine.pengus.net/svn/trunk</ulink>.
      </para>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>
</book>