Installation

2.1. Eclipse

You need to have the Eclipse installed. See Eclipse IDE for installing and using Eclipse. We will use Apache Ant but Ant is integrated into Eclipse therefore no additional installation is required.

2.2. Docbook and Stylesheets

Download the Docbook DTD and XSLT stylesheets. You can download the Docbook DTD from http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5 and the XSLT stylesheets from http://docbook.sourceforge.net At of the time of writing this article the version "1.75.2" is the most recent version. Download the docbook-xsl distribution, e.g. "docbook-xsl-1.75.2.zip".

2.3. XSL processor

Unfortunately the XSL processor included into the JVM has problem with the XSLT stylesheets. Therefore download the Xalan XSL processor from http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/ .