How about dblatex ?

After much struggle with fop, I gave dblatex another try. I quickly discover the secret options I was loooking for:

$ dblatex -P doc.collab.show=0 -P latex.output.revhistory=0 -P doc.toc.show=0 input.xml

Indeed I could remove the revision history and the collaborators section which looked suprising the first time I used dblatex.

I found out this trick here:

* http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492366#14

The documentation

* http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/doc/sec-custom.html