2 Converting to man pages

docbook2X converts DocBook to man pages in two steps:

1. The DocBook source is converted by a stylesheet into an intermediate XML format, Man-XML.

   Man-XML is simpler than DocBook and closer to the man page format; it is intended to make the stylesheets' job easier.

   The stylesheet for this purpose has the public ID:

             -//Steve Cheng//DOCUMENT DocBook Man-page Stylesheet//EN
        

   Alternatively, you can refer to the stylesheet with this URI:

             http://docbook2x.sf.net/latest/xslt/man/docbook.xsl
        

   Run this stylesheet with db2x_xsltproc.

2. Man-XML is converted to the actual man pages by db2x_manxml.

The docbook2man (see Wrapper scripts manual page) command does both steps automatically, but if any problems occur, you can see the errors more clearly if you do each step separately:

     $ db2x_xsltproc -s man mydoc.xml -o mydoc.mxml
     $ db2x_manxml mydoc.mxml

• db2x_manxml: Make man pages from Man-XML