I think conversion to docbook 5 is not worth the hassle. I can skip the superfluous changes but the build still complains about soms missing document metadata which I don't know how to fabricate: XSLT modinfo.8 Note: meta manual : no titled ancestor of refentry modinfo Note: meta manual : no refentry/refmeta/refmiscinfo@class=manual modinfo Note: meta manual : see http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/refmi modinfo Warn: meta manual : no fallback for manual, so inserted a fixme modinfo