discuss: Cross over between docbook and apache doc formats

Hello,
If this is not the right forum, feel free to suggest I send this comment 
elsewhere.

I'm planning to use docbook XML 4.1.2 as the documenation format for 
http://geotools.sourceforge.net , a java project.

However, I was surprised to find the lack of use of docbook within java tools 
despite their ease of use.

Standard java development process uses "ant" http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ 
which is an XML version of the unix "make".  Ant provides a very simple 
<style> task which can be used to easilly convert docbook XML to HTML.  Since 
it is java based, it can be run on multi platforms.
Has anyone else been doing this?  I'd be surprised if I was.
I'd suggest that this should be mentioned in the LDP Author's Guide.

Secondly, the java documentation tools seem to be focused around the jakarta 
projects, which use stylebook, or anakia, or similar.  (I still have not 
worked it out fully yet).
Have LDP people been involved in the jakarta type documentation formats or 
involved in translating between the 2?
I've been discussing the issue with Dion.  You can see the thread at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/turbine-maven-user%40jakarta.apache.org/msg00260.html

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