This document provides guidelines for creation of the end-user documentation found within Zend Framework. It is intended as a guide to Zend Framework contributors, who must write documentation as part of component contributions, as well as to documentation translators. The standards contained herein are intended to ease translation of documentation, minimize visual and stylistic differences between different documentation files, and make finding changes in documentation easier with diff tools.

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Topics covered in Zend Framework's documentation standards include documentation file formatting and recommendations for documentation quality.