From an email misty sent: The ability to build articles as the top-level container. Articles only have one "chapter" which can contain multiple sections, and they have an Article_Info.xml instead of Book_Info.xml. We use articles for release notes and other short works. http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/article.html
Added in 0.27.0 You can now build articles using the CSP. To do this you need to add the following to the metadata in the Content Spec: Type=Article Articles have different processing rules then a Book: - An Article can't have Parts Chapters, or Process's. - Appendixes must be at the bottom of the content spec. - Topics can be used at the base level. - Sections don't have to be in a chapter. They also can be used at the base level.
Closing and setting as current release as no QA was performed by the original reporter. If there is still an issue with this bug still than please re-open it.