I know that DocBook has been mentioned in this thread and compared
unfavorably with DCF.  I've used both, although I haven't used DCF for many
years.
We recently started using DocBook on a couple of projects, and overall we
were pretty pleased with it.

We were able to generate documentation in HTML for a website along with PDF
from the same XML source files.  We used a set of Java XSLT and FO
translators and Ant scripts which integrates with our Eclipse development
environment very nicely ... Eclipse's XML-schema aware XML editor, although
not perfect, makes XML markup pretty friendly overall.

So you can plead with IBM to port and open DCF, but DocBook is already open,
free, and portable to about everywhere.   Like DCF, you can customize the
styles and tags to meet your requirements.   I don't think that it is as
polished as DCF right now, but it is pretty usable IMO.

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies

For an example of DocBook output (HTML and PDF), see:
http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/index.html

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