LaserHammer is a simple DocBook to mdoc(7) ("UNIX man page syntax") converter. The command line utility resides in the scripts/ subdirectory; use it like this: $ laserhammer book.parsed.xml book.7 The 7 above stands for section 7 of man pages, "miscellaneous documentation". The 'book.parsed.xml' is a processed XML source of the FreeBSD Handbook; you can use it as test sample. The 'book.7' is the example translated into mdoc. There's also a rudimentary Python module. Use it like this: import laserhammer mdoc = laserhammer.laserhammer(file_path) print(mdoc) WWW: https://github.com/trasz/laserhammer