I have been looking at the xml manuals of Pragma. I don't quite understand what you mean with the standard chain.
Hans has a This Way on using xsltproc to generate ConTeXt code, which you can then process using context.
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0008.pdf http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/example.pdf
I do not know if there is a docbook xsl file with all the translations, or will you have to do that by hand.
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