pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.storyiq.examples</groupId>
  <artifactId>docbook-build</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>DocBook Example</name>
  <description>A Example Maven project containing DocBook generated documentation</description>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>net.sf.docbook</groupId>
      <artifactId>docbook-xsl</artifactId>
      <version>1.75.2</version>
      <type>zip</type>
      <classifier>ns-resources</classifier>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>net.sf.docbook</groupId>
      <artifactId>docbook-xml</artifactId>
      <version>5.0-all</version>
      <type>zip</type>
      <classifier>resources</classifier>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>unpack-shared-resources</id>
            <goals>
              <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
            <configuration>
              <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-resources</outputDirectory>
              <includeGroupIds>net.sf.docbook</includeGroupIds>
              <includeArtifactIds>docbook-xsl</includeArtifactIds>
              <includeClassifiers>ns-resources</includeClassifiers>
              <excludeTransitive>true</excludeTransitive>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>xml-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>generate-html</id>
            <goals>
              <goal>transform</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <configuration>
              <transformationSets>
                <transformationSet>
                  <!-- the stylesheet is located in the previously extracted directory under the docbook/ directory -->
                  <stylesheet>${project.build.directory}/generated-resources/docbook/html/docbook.xsl</stylesheet>
                  <!-- rename the file with a proper extension -->
                  <fileMappers>
                    <fileMapper implementation="org.codehaus.plexus.components.io.filemappers.FileExtensionMapper">
                      <targetExtension>.html</targetExtension>
                    </fileMapper>
                  </fileMappers>
                  <dir>src/main/xml/docbook</dir>
                  <includes>
                    <include>manual.xml</include>
                  </includes>
                  <outputDir>${project.build.directory}/docbook</outputDir>
                </transformationSet>
              </transformationSets>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
        <dependencies>
          <dependency>
            <groupId>xalan</groupId>
            <artifactId>xalan</artifactId>
            <version>2.7.1</version>
          </dependency>
          <dependency>
            <groupId>xerces</groupId>
            <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
            <version>2.9.1</version>
          </dependency>
        </dependencies>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>