# Install docbook-xsl with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper XML vocabulary to create presentation-neutral documents. Version 1.79.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-27. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:docbook-xsl ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install docbook-xsl ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install docbook-xsl ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: textproc/docbook-xsl/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add docbook-xsl ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: docbook-xsl from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install docbook-xsl ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: docbook-xsl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install docbook-style-xsl ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: docbook-style-xsl from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#docbook_xsl ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: docbook_xsl from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S docbook-xsl ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: docbook-xsl from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install docbook-xsl-pdf2index ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: docbook-xsl-pdf2index from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:docbook-xsl - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.79.2 - **Source summary:** XML vocabulary to create presentation-neutral documents - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-27T18:06:36-04:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - dbtoepub (cli) - dbtoepub (alias) ## Dependencies - docbook ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.79.2 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-27 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage DocBook XSL Stylesheets are one of the classic XML documentation toolchain packages: a large body of XSLT used to turn DocBook XML into HTML, XSL-FO/PDF workflows, man pages, EPUB, and other outputs. They are historically significant because they carried DocBook from the SGML/DSSSL documentation era into XML/XSLT-based publishing for Unix, Linux distribution, enterprise, and book-production workflows. ### Project history The DocBook project describes the XSLT 1.0 stylesheets as dating to the early 2000s and replacing older DSSSL stylesheets from the 1990s. The stylesheets lived for years on SourceForge as part of the DocBook project, then moved to GitHub, where the xslt10-stylesheets repository is now the intended repository of record. The 1.79.2 release snapshot, published in the DocBook CDN in December 2016, became the long-lived stable version many distributions continue to ship. ### Adoption history Adoption is broad and old-school: DocBook XSL is packaged by Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, Arch, MacPorts, Nix, MSYS2, Alpine, Ubuntu, openSUSE, and other ecosystems because build systems and documentation packages still depend on it. Many downstream projects layer their own branding or output customizations on top of the stock stylesheets, such as SUSE's DocBook stylesheet customization layer. ### How it is used The package is installed as shared XML/XSL resources, usually consumed by xsltproc, Saxon, or build systems that transform DocBook sources. Its outputs cover the practical documentation formats that made DocBook popular: chunked HTML, single-page HTML, XSL-FO for print/PDF, man pages, EPUB, and help-system formats. ### Why package nerds care This is infrastructure you notice mostly when it breaks: thousands of source packages, manuals, and distro docs have historically assumed DocBook XSL is present under a conventional XML catalog path. It is also a time capsule of the XML publishing era, where packaging a stylesheet tree was as important as packaging compilers or libraries. ### Timeline - 1990s: DocBook publishing relied on SGML and DSSSL stylesheets. - Early 2000s: the DocBook XSLT 1.0 stylesheets became the replacement XML/XSLT publishing path. - 2009: SourceForge news shows active 1.74.x DocBook XSL and XSL-NS releases. - 2016: DocBook XSL 1.79.2 was deployed to the DocBook CDN and became the durable stable release in many package managers. - 2010s-2020s: development moved away from SourceForge to GitHub; newer DocBook work increasingly points users toward xslTNG when practical. ### Related projects - Related DocBook projects include the DocBook XML schemas, the older DSSSL stylesheets, the later XSLT 2.0 stylesheets, and the newer xslTNG stylesheets. - Common companion tools include libxml2, libxslt/xsltproc, xmlto, docbook2X, Apache FOP, and distribution-specific XML catalog tooling. ### Sources - - - - - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** docbook-xsl - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 1 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - docbook-xsl - 1.79.2+dfsg-7: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: docbook-xsl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | stylesheets for processing DocBook XML to various output formats | https://github.com/docbook/wiki/wiki/DocBookXslStylesheets - Debian apt - docbook-xsl-ns - 1.79.2+dfsg-7: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: docbook-xsl-ns from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | stylesheets for processing DocBook 5 XML to various output formats | https://github.com/docbook/wiki/wiki/DocBookXslStylesheets - Nix - docbook_xsl: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: docbook_xsl from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - Ubuntu apt - docbook-xsl - 1.79.2+dfsg-7: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: docbook-xsl from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | stylesheets for processing DocBook XML to various output formats | https://github.com/docbook/wiki/wiki/DocBookXslStylesheets - Ubuntu apt - docbook-xsl-ns - 1.79.2+dfsg-7: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: docbook-xsl-ns from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | stylesheets for processing DocBook 5 XML to various output formats | https://github.com/docbook/wiki/wiki/DocBookXslStylesheets - apk - docbook-xsl - 1.79.2-r13: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: docbook-xsl from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | XML stylesheets for Docbook-xml transformations | https://docbook.org/ - apk - docbook-xsl-nons - 1.79.2-r13: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: docbook-xsl-nons from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | XML stylesheets for Docbook-xml transformations (no-namespace version) | https://docbook.org/ - apk - docbook-xsl-ns - 1.79.2-r13: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: docbook-xsl-ns from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | XML stylesheets for Docbook-xml transformations (namespace version) | https://docbook.org/ - dnf - docbook-style-xsl - 1.79.2-27.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: docbook-style-xsl from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Norman Walsh's XSL stylesheets for DocBook XML | https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets - pacman - docbook-xsl - 1.79.2-9: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: docbook-xsl from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | XML stylesheets for Docbook-xml transformations | https://docbook.org/ - zypper - docbook-xsl-pdf2index - 1.79.2.2-2.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: docbook-xsl-pdf2index from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Script to create Indices for FOP | https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets - zypper - docbook-xsl-stylesheets - 1.79.2.2-2.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: docbook-xsl-stylesheets from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | XSL Stylesheets for DocBook 4 | https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets - zypper - docbook5-xsl-stylesheets - 1.79.2.2-2.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: docbook5-xsl-stylesheets from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | XSL Stylesheets for DocBook 5 | https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets - MacPorts - docbook-xsl: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/docbook-xsl/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Debian apt - dbtoepub - 0+svn9904-7: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: dbtoepub from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | DocBook XML to .epub converter | https://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README - Ubuntu apt - dbtoepub - 0+svn9904-7: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: dbtoepub from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | DocBook XML to .epub converter | https://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README ## Related links - 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