DocBook 5.0: The Definitive Guide

http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/

A brief book and certainly not up to the quality of a normal O'Reilly book. I think there is more information in the older versions of the book. I noticed that OpenOffice writer outputs to docbook version 4.1.2 from the website: There are no official XML versions of DocBook prior to V4.1.2 . DocBook V4.5 is an OASIS Standard.

The 4.5 version is much more robust (http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/) this is the released version of Docbook that I should use.

Don't want DSSSL because it seems too SGML for me. Want to use XSL, but can't find the xsl that matches with Docbook 4.5???

Finally found the xsl release here (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935) and tried it with fop.

Finally after much turmoil I have decided to use ant. Ant is great and there is a style task for transforms and a fop task so it should have all I need.

DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/

A nice reference for developers who want to use Docbook as a format and transform to other outputs.