The DocBook Publishing Utilities tools, which make creation and publishing of DocBook easier. The tools are: Maven plug-in to Transform HTML into XML (use after docbkx); Eclipse DocBook table editor; Eclipse wizards for initial DocBook files.
With MajiX you can automatically transform RTF files (Microsoft Word files) in XML. MajiX is Java compliant. You can convert Headings, lists (numbered or not), tables, bold, italics, underline and some more.