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diff --git a/tools.dbk b/tools.dbk
index 77ac8f4..a9b4b81 100644
--- a/tools.dbk
+++ b/tools.dbk
@@ -306,8 +306,8 @@ environment.
It can use chrooted environments as well. It can be used stand-alone, or as
part of a networked, distributed build environment. As the latter, it is part
of the system used by porters to build binary packages for all the available
-architectures. See for more information, and to see the system in action.
+architectures. See for more information, and
+ to see the system in action.
@@ -499,12 +499,40 @@ enhanced to support cross-compiling.
The following packages provide information for maintainers or help with
building documentation.
+
+
+docbook-xml
+
+docbook-xml provides the
+DocBook XML DTDs, which are commonly used for Debian documentation (as
+is the older debiandoc SGML DTD). This manual, for instance, is
+written in DocBook XML.
+
+
+The docbook-xsl package
+provides the XSL files for building and styling the source to various
+output formats. You will need an XSLT processor, such as xsltproc, to use the XSL stylesheets.
+Documentation for the stylesheets can be found in the various
+docbook-xsl-doc-* packages.
+
+
+To produce PDF from FO, you need an FO processor, such as xmlroff or fop. Another tool to generate PDF from
+DocBook XML is dblatex.
+
+
+
debiandoc-sgml
debiandoc-sgml provides the DebianDoc
-SGML DTD, which is commonly used for Debian documentation. This manual, for
-instance, is written in DebianDoc. It also provides scripts for building and
+SGML DTD, which is commonly used for Debian documentation,
+but is now deprecated
+(docbook-xml
+should be used instead).
+It also provides scripts for building and
styling the source to various output formats.
@@ -512,22 +540,6 @@ Documentation for the DTD can be found in the debiandoc-sgml-doc package.
-