ant4docbook ant task for docbook

Ant4docbook is an ant task for processing docbook xml documents.
Docbook is a semantic markup language for writing technical documentation :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<article xml:lang="en" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">

	<title>My first docbook article</title>
	<section id="section1">
		<title>Section level 1</title>
		<para>
			write your documentation
		</para>
	</section>

</article>  	

Apache Ant is a xml tool for writing scripts :

<project name="ant-project" default="todo"> 

  <target name="todo"> 
    <!-- define ant task here, such as <dbk> task -->
    <dbk file="docbook.xml" tofile="file.html">
  </target> 

</project>  	

Please see : documentation for descriptions and samples.

Why another docbook processing tool when there are already many ones ?
Even if these tools do their jobs as they have to do, it is sometimes quiet difficult to install/use/customize them.
Ant4docbook aims to be :

• easy to use.
• easy to install.
  Ant4docbook package contains all tools and dependencies
• easy to customize
• cross platform