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); EclipseDocBook table editor; Eclipse wizards for initial DocBook files.
Vex is a CSS-styled XML editor based on the Eclipse platform. It provides a word processor-like interface for document-style XML documents such as DocBook and xhtml.
The Docbook Plugin for Eclipse will allow generating documents within Eclipse IDE environment to various file formats that docbook supports using docbook xsl. Possible future enhancements could include support for docbook dsssl and apache's FOP support.