The text and the source code for the Hadoop illuminated book, see http://www.hadoopilluminated.com The book is written with docbook, http://code.google.com/p/docbkx-tools/ To generate the book in HTML and PDF, do this: $ mvn clean pre-site References: * xsl formatting reference : http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html * docbooks quick reference : http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/quickref.html