DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating Different Output Formats Using DocBook V 4.1 XML

[Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de>]

Hi!

What "final" output formats can be generated if one intends to use the XML
version of DocBook (V 4.1) in conjunction with the XSL (V 1.16) version of
the Modular DocBook style sheets?

I'm looking for the following formats:

- DVI
- RTF
- MIF
- PS
- PDF
- HTML
- PCL (would be practical if a document contains a lot of images, since
PostScript burdens the printer with all the rendering work, unless it has
got some Rendering Image Processor (RIP) )
- troff (unix man pages)
- texinfo
- ascii (also taking into account page breaks and tables)

(Except for the last four formats, these are quite the same formats the
can be generated with the SGML version of DocBook). What tools do I
need? (I was told that "Saxon" is supposed to be a good XSL processor,
but I'm not really sure whether it's suitable for my purpose. I just
couldn't find any information as to whether it can create output formats
other than HTML on the home page.) In what order should the tools be
invoked for producing the desired formats?