The intent of this document is to provide a set of generic instructions that should enable the average computer user to set up a system for authoring SGML DocBook and/or XML documents. A key resource for getting going with DocBook is DocBook: The Definitive guide by Norman Walsh, http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html This is definitely a recommended read.

There are already many guides on the Internet which describe how to set up systems for authoring DocBook in XML/SGML and is is advised that one browses these as well in order to get a more comprehensive view of what is going on and how all the system components are interacting, if it is suggested that you should read something, it is probably worth while to do so, but hopefully this guide should be enough to get you started.

Other tutorials for setting up DocBook or authoring with DocBook:

More useful web pages can be found in the reference page.