Using docbook

[Kate Stout <stout -dot- k -at- comcast -dot- net>]

Hi all -
I'd like to single source several documents, that my company plans to 
produce. There will be a User Guide, a Tutorial, and possibly some other 
manuals. Some material is reused across the various documents, so that 
would be shared amungst the documents. Some documents will be produced 
as pdf, others as an web in html, and some may be both.

I'm considering using creating the document components in docbook, then 
using xslt transforms to create the various required output formats.
Bunch of questions
1) Has anyone here used the docbook DTD before, & if yes, what was the 
experience like? I'm a little concerned because it's a fairly complex 
markup scheme.
2) What tools have you used to do the documentation editing? Did you 
"handcode" or use a specialized editor?
3) What tools did you use for xml transforms?
4) Tell me what else I should know, I'm sure there are questions I 
haven't thought to ask ;-).

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