Dependencies

Package: Perl

Author's version: 5.005

Use: docbook2X Perl tools, which is just about everything :). (Find this and Perl related stuff at CPAN)

Package: (Perl) XML::Parser

Author's version: 2.27

Use: Needed for all docbook2X Perl tools that parse XML

Package: (Perl) XML::DOM

Author's version: 1.25

Use: Parse document into core; needed for docbook2texixml, docbook2texi, docbook2man.

Package: (Perl) XML::Writer

Author's version: 0.3

Use: Write well-formed XML; needed for docbook2texixml, docbook2manxml, texi_xml, man_xml.

Package: libxml-perl

Author's version: 0.07

Use: PerlSAX, which is part of this package, is used for sequential parsing of documents by docbook2manxml, texi_xml, man_xml.

Package: (Perl) SGMLS module and its sgmlspl script

Author's version: 1.03ii

Use: Parse ESIS output for SGML-based converters: docbook2man-spec.pl, docbook2texi-spec.pl

Package: XSL processor [1]

Author's version:

Use: Used for docbook2texi-xslt.

Notes

[1]

XSL processor should have support for the XSLT specification at least to the level of XT. XT and Saxon are recommended (which also require Java).