the minimal toolset for XML/docbook processing?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  these days, what's the most up-to-date set of packages that supports
rendering docbook into as many formats as possible -- html, xhtml,
pdf, ps, dvi, txt, and so on.

  specifically, i have no interest in packages related to SGML or
DSSSL or, if possible, jade.  if one could guarantee that one had only
current docbook5 input, what's a good collection of packages for this?
trivially, i'm looking at:

  * docbook-dtds
  * docbook5-schemas
  * docbook5-style-xsl
  * libxslt, libxml2 (for xsltproc)
  * xmlto
  * fop (for PDF generation)

beyond that, what else should be part of the collection?  i know of
other packages like docbook-utils and docbook-utils-pdf, but as i read
it, those involve pulling in jade, and it's not clear that that's
necessary once you have all of the above.  or is it?

  is there a wiki page on all this somewhere, or am i going to have to
write one?  :-)

rday
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