Plain text docbook?

[Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>]

Mmm OK you've seen it before.

Today I spent the day not putting in pointy brackets
and still getting out good docbook article markup.

Restricted set yes, but sections to 4 levels, enough
inlines, links, tables etc.
* level1
** level 2
etc.

  para

*---+---+
table cell | cell

etc.

Java code, built as part of an editor (xxe), and I found it
really quite impressive.

http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/plugins.shtml
look for apt plug in, pull the .jar file and have some fun.
Also outputs html, pdf, tex etc.

regards DaveP