Thanks a lot Chris! On Ubuntu 10.4, with docbook2odf package installed, I tried: git clone git://git.koha-community.org/kohadocs.git cd es docbook2odf manual.xml --output-file manual-es.odt --debug And after 10' a 23MB ODF file is generated, but for some reason I can't open it with OpenOffice: ooffice -view manual.odt terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc With AbiWord, after a while open it ("Some errors were encountered during the import."). I saved to another ODT and again trying to open with OpenOffice. This time it could, but it says it is corrupt and try to fix it. Then I tried with another package, docbook-utils. Again, a lot of errors. A bunch of HTMLs with basic format, no colors and problems with images were generated. jw manual.xml * ...non SGML character number...* * ...maximum number of errors (200) reached...* Are we sure that manual.xml DocBook is perfectly correct? Someone could do this successfully? Cheers, Pablo PD: At least looks to be completely in UTF-8, as it should.