• DebianGnuLinuxPackages

Base packages

On Sarge and Etch, at a mininum, you probably need to install:

• docbook

• docbook-xml

• sgml-base

• opensp

Document authoring

For authoring documents, you'll need an XML-aware editing application:

• psgml, a generic SGML/XML authoring environment for GNU emacs (already included in Xemacs)

• qemacs, a lightweight emacs clone with CSS rendering of XML documents, including a CSS for DocBook (waiting for the rubberstamp to appear in unstable)

DocBook XML processing

For publishing XML documents using XSLT, you'll want to get:

• docbook-xsl

• xsltproc

• libsaxon-java (contrib before Etch): a Java XSLT processor (the Debian version is rather old)

• libxalan2-java (contrib before Etch): another supported Java-based XSLT processor

• fop (contrib): for PDF and related conversions; openjade/jadetex (below) will probably produce better results

• passivetex: processes XML FOs as TeX

DocBook SGML processing

For authoring SGML (or XML) documents and processing them using DSSSL, you'll want to get:

• docbook-dsssl

• openjade1.3 or openjade or jade

• jadetex

• sgml-data

You may also want to get one more of the following packages, which provide more convenient, easier-to-use front ends for using OpenJade and Jadetex:

• sgml2x

• sgmltools-lite

• docbook-utils (includes stylesheet to convert to man and texinfo)

Generating other output formats

• docbook-website: for generating websites from DocBook documents

• docbook-slides: for generating slide presentations from DocBook documents

• docbook-to-man: for generating roff man pages from DocBook documents

Other add-ons

• docbook-simple: the SimplifiedDocbook DTD

• docbook-jrefentry: the JrefEntry DTD

• docbook-html-forms: enables you to embed HTML forms in XML DocBook documents

• docbook-mathml: enables you to embed MathML in XML DocBook documents

• docbook-ebnf: enables you to embed EBNF grammar rules in XML DocBook documents

• alcovebook-sgml: some customisations of the DSSSL stylesheets, and a strict subset of the SGML DTD

• ldp-docbook-xsl: the XSL stylesheets used by the Linux Documentation Project

• ldp-docbook-dsssl: the DSSSL stylesheets used by the Linux Documentation Project