diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 94019bb..1d027e9 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ user-visible needs
 
   * add support for .epub3 (or just .epub?)
 
-  * add support for asciidoc; instantiate a new instance of Docbook4XML 
-    with a SourceDocument of the generated result of asciidoc --backend
-    docbook
-  
   * consider adding support for metadata extraction from documents
 
   * create TLDP DocBook 5.0 XSL files (if we care)
diff --git a/tests/example.py b/tests/example.py
index c8b2bae..9085e35 100644
--- a/tests/example.py
+++ b/tests/example.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ ex_docbook5xml = Namespace(
 
 ex_asciidoc = Namespace(
            doctype=tldp.doctypes.asciidoc.Asciidoc,
-           filename=opj(sampledocs, 'text-simple.txt'),
+           filename=opj(sampledocs, 'asciidoc-complete.txt'),
           )
 #
 # ex_rst = Namespace(
@@ -43,11 +43,6 @@ ex_asciidoc = Namespace(
 #           filename=opj(sampledocs, 'restructuredtext-simple.rst'),
 #          )
 #
-# ex_text = Namespace(
-#            doctype=tldp.doctypes.text.Text,
-#            filename=opj(sampledocs, 'text-simple.txt'),
-#           )
-#
 # ex_markdown = Namespace(
 #                doctype=tldp.doctypes.markdown.Markdown,
 #                filename=opj(sampledocs, 'markdown-simple.md'),
diff --git a/tests/test_driver.py b/tests/test_driver.py
index 0454e00..9680a8f 100644
--- a/tests/test_driver.py
+++ b/tests/test_driver.py
@@ -306,9 +306,22 @@ class TestDriverProcessSkips(TestInventoryBase):
         self.assertEquals(len(inc) + 1, len(inv.all.keys()))
 
 
-@unittest.skip("Except when you want to spend time....")
+# @unittest.skip("Except when you want to spend time....")
 class TestDriverBuild(TestInventoryBase):
 
+    def test_build_asciidoc(self):
+        self.add_docbook4xml_xsl_to_config()
+        c = self.config
+        c.build = True
+        self.add_new('Frobnitz-Asciidoc-HOWTO', example.ex_asciidoc)
+        inv = tldp.inventory.Inventory(c.pubdir, c.sourcedir)
+        self.assertEquals(1, len(inv.all.keys()))
+        docs = inv.all.values()
+        c.skip = []
+        tldp.driver.publish(c, docs)
+        doc = docs.pop(0)
+        self.assertTrue(doc.output.iscomplete)
+
     def test_build_linuxdoc(self):
         c = self.config
         c.build = True
diff --git a/tldp/doctypes/asciidoc.py b/tldp/doctypes/asciidoc.py
index efb13e5..f3d7839 100644
--- a/tldp/doctypes/asciidoc.py
+++ b/tldp/doctypes/asciidoc.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ class Asciidoc(Docbook4XML):
     required = {'asciidoc_asciidoc': isexecutable,
                 'asciidoc_xmllint': isexecutable,
                 }
+    required.update(Docbook4XML.required)
 
     def make_docbook45(self):
         s = '''"{config.asciidoc_asciidoc}" \\