diff --git a/docbook/Dockerfile b/docbook/Dockerfile
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+FROM ubuntu:18.04
+MAINTAINER Norman Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
+
+RUN apt-get update
+RUN apt-get dist-upgrade -y
+RUN apt-get install -y default-jre maven unzip
+
+RUN apt-get install -y software-properties-common
+RUN add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa -y
+RUN apt-get update
+RUN apt-get install -y python3.8 python3-pip
+
+RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.6 1
+RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.8 10
+
+# Use Maven to install the packages that docbook-xslTNG depends on
+RUN mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.4:get \
+        -Dartifact=net.sf.saxon:Saxon-HE:10.6
+RUN mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.4:get \
+        -Dartifact=com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor:2.15.0
+RUN mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.4:get \
+        -Dartifact=org.relaxng:jing:20181222
+RUN mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.4:get \
+        -Dartifact=org.xmlresolver:xmlresolver:3.1.0
+RUN mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.4:get \
+        -Dartifact=com.nwalsh:sinclude:4.0.0
+RUN mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.4:get \
+        -Dartifact=org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.30
+
+ARG VERSION=1.6.0
+
+WORKDIR /opt
+ADD https://github.com/docbook/xslTNG/releases/download/${VERSION}/docbook-xslTNG-${VERSION}.zip .
+RUN unzip docbook-xslTNG-${VERSION}.zip
+
+WORKDIR docbook-xslTNG-${VERSION}
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["bin/docbook"]
diff --git a/docbook/README b/docbook/README
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+DocBook xslTNG version 1.6.0
+
+This directory contains an experimental Dockerfile. Using docker
+allows you to isolate the environment necessary to run the DocBook
+xslTNG stylesheets from your local environment.
+
+1. Build the docker image. In this directory, run the docker build
+   command:
+
+   docker build -t docbook-xslt .
+
+   The "-t" option provides a tag for the image; you can make this
+   anything you want. There's a VERSION build argument if you want
+   to build a particular release. For example,
+
+   docker build --build-arg VERSION=0.9.14 -t docbook-xslt .
+
+   will build a Docker image for the 0.9.14 release of the stylesheets
+   irrespective of the version in the Dockerfile.
+
+2. Run the image, for example:
+
+   docker run docbook-xsltng samples/article.xml
+
+   If you chose a different tag when you built the image, use that tag
+   in place of 'docbook-xsltng' in the run command. Everything after the
+   container tag becomes options to the 'docbook' Python script.
+
+   Note that the context the script runs in is *inside* the container.
+   It can't for example, see your local filesystem.
+
+You can use the Docker facilities for mounting directories to change
+what documents the script can access. For example:
+
+   docker run -v /tmp:/output -v /path/to/samples:/input \
+          docbook-xsltng /input/article.xml chunk=index.html \
+          chunk-output-base-uri=/output/
+
+Assuming that the 'samples' directory in the distribution is located
+at /path/to/samples, this will chunk the article.xml sample document
+that the script sees in /input (which is where you mounted samples)
+and it will write the output to /output (which is where you mounted
+/tmp).
+
+When the script finishes, the chunked output will be in /tmp