View the most recent changes for the docbook2x port at: docbook2x.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for docbook2x.
The raw portfile for docbook2x 0.8.8 is located here:
http://docbook2x.darwinports.com/dports/textproc/docbook2X/Portfile
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The docbook2x Portfile 44714 2009-01-02 09:57:32Z mcalhoun macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: docbook2X
Version: 0.8.8
Revision: 1
Category: textproc
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: markd
Homepage: http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/
Description: Converts DocBook documents into the traditional Unix man page format and the GNU Texinfo format.
Long Description: ${description}
Master Sites: sourceforge:docbook2x
Checksums: md5 b9b76a6af198c4f44574cfd17a322f01

depends_lib path:bin/perl:perl5 port:p5-xml-namespacesupport port:p5-xml-sax port:p5-xml-parser port:p5-xml-sax-expat port:libiconv port:libxml2

post-patch {
reinplace "s|http://docbook2x.sf.net/latest/xslt|${prefix}/share/docbook2X/xslt|" ${worksrcpath}/perl/db2x_xsltproc.pl
reinplace "s|\${prefix}|${prefix}|" ${worksrcpath}/configure
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/docbook2x
%  sudo port install docbook2x  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching docbook2x
--->  Verifying checksum for docbook2x
--->  Extracting docbook2x
--->  Configuring docbook2x
--->  Building docbook2x with target all

--->  Staging docbook2x into destroot

--->  Installing docbook2x

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using docbook2x with these commands:

%  man docbook2x
%  apropos docbook2x
%  which docbook2x
%  locate docbook2x

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