"docbook-utils-pdf" versus "xmlto" for docbook -> PDF

[Robert P. J. Day]

  it's been a while since i've rendered docbook files into PDF, and i
always used a combination of xmlto and a FOP processor of some kind.
can someone in the know explain the differences in the approaches
between using xmlto, and using the docbook-utils-pdf package?  are
these things now ready to go out of the box because, if memory serves,
they used to have some pretty rough edges.

rday
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