Hi,
Actually I would prefer to modify ARGS of w3m as is suggested in
man pages and as is done in xmlto docbook txt formatter.
(done in attached patch - I'll commit that one to Fedora)

About Eric Bischoffs current address - after a bit of google
searching, it seems that now he is using ebischoff@nerim.net
- but nothing guaranteed.

Greetings,
         Ondrej Vasik


Christian Bünnig wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I've experienced a bug in the text backend of the docbook tools. The bug
> is about converting from HTML to TEXT with w3m. The backend creates a
> temporary HTML file to make a TEXT file from. However, the temporary
> HTML has no '.html' suffix and in that case w3m does not convert it to
> plain text - the resulting <FILE>.txt is still HTML.
> 
> Below is a workaround. I just appended '.html' to the variable HTML
> (line 22). Now it works.
> 
> Btw .. the e-mail address <eric@caldera.de> seems to be not valid
> anymore.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
>