Docbook, Publican, docbook-utils?

[Mark Stodola]

Does anyone have any recent experience writing documentation in docbook 
with current tools?
I'm in the process of updating a user manual that I wrote several user 
ago in docbook xml that used xsltproc, fop, and docbook 4.1.x 
definitions.  It looks like I've fallen behind and new tools are 
around.  A search shows that supposedly TUV is using a tool set called 
Publican, but information is scarce.  I also see docbook-utils and 
docbook-utils-pdf as available packages.  Grabbing the latest fop and 
definitions is giving me quite a screen full of errors.  There must be 
an easier way by now.  I'd like to continue to generate html, pdf, and 
ps output at a minimum.

What are people using for a tool chain these days?
Cheers,
Mark

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Mr. Mark V. Stodola
Digital Systems Engineer

National Electrostatics Corp.
P.O. Box 620310
Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA
Phone: (608) 831-7600
Fax: (608) 831-9591