Trouble getting started

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I'm beginning to explore DocBook, and I just found XAE 1.0beta8.  It
looks very promising: an Emacs mode with everything in one file that
works out of the box.  I installed it, read the UG, and created a simple
DocBook file, as described.  So far, I was very encouraged.

Then it stopped: no word for a novice such as I on what to do next.  I
tried XAE > View Document > In XML Browser, and that worked nicely.  I
tried XAE > View Document > In HTML Browser, and I got

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| > apply_assoc_stylesheet file:///c:\Documents and Settings\Bill Harris\My Documents\Consulting\r+d\docbooktest\myfirstbook.xml c:/Documents and Settings/Bill Harris/My Documents/Consulting/r+d/docbooktest/myfirstbook.htmljavax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: XML parsing failure while looking for <?xml-stylesheet?>
| no more input
| javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: XML parsing failure while looking for <?xml-stylesheet?>
| 	at com.icl.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl.getAssociatedStylesheet(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:259)
| 	at xae.XSLTransformer.applyAssociatedStylesheet(XSLTransformer.java:133)
| 	at xae.XMLToolServer.applyAssociatedStylesheet(XMLToolServer.java:143)
| 	at xae.XMLToolServer.processCommand(XMLToolServer.java:94)
| 	at xae.XMLToolServer.run(XMLToolServer.java:79)
| 	at xae.XMLToolServer.main(XMLToolServer.java:59)
| Command aborted.
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Not so good.

I tried XAE > Apply Stylesheet > Associated and kept the HTML option,
and I got 

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|  apply_assoc_stylesheet file:///c:\Documents and Settings\Bill Harris\My Documents\Consulting\r+d\docbooktest\myfirstbook.xml c:/Documents and Settings/Bill Harris/My Documents/Consulting/r+d/docbooktest/myfirstbook.html
| no more input
| javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: XML parsing failure while looking for <?xml-stylesheet?>
| 	at com.icl.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl.getAssociatedStylesheet(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:259)
| 	at xae.XSLTransformer.applyAssociatedStylesheet(XSLTransformer.java:133)
| 	at xae.XMLToolServer.applyAssociatedStylesheet(XMLToolServer.java:143)
| 	at xae.XMLToolServer.processCommand(XMLToolServer.java:94)
| 	at xae.XMLToolServer.run(XMLToolServer.java:79)
| 	at xae.XMLToolServer.main(XMLToolServer.java:59)
| Command aborted.
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I then tried lots of things, including SGML > Validate, and it put 

Validate command: nsgmls -wxml -s filename.xml

in the minibuffer.  When I accepted that, it gave me an *sgml
validation* buffer that said

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| cd c:/Documents and Settings/Bill Harris/My Documents/Consulting/r+d/docbooktest/
| nsgmls -wxml -s  myfirstbook.xml
| /usr/bin/bash: line 1: nsgmls: command not found
| 
| SGML validation exited abnormally with code 127 at Sun Dec 12 00:23:13
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http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.text.xml/browse_thread/thread/773f8a31201ee92f/e9fe342101495f28?q=nsgmls+xae&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3Dnsgmls+xae%26start%3D0%26scoring%3Dd%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#e9fe342101495f28
indicated that I should perhaps not have spaces in file names; I don't
like them, either, but XP sorta likes such spaces.  Besides, I'm not
sure not finding nsgmls is a fault of spaces, and the rest of my emacs
stuff seems to coexist with spaces in file names.

So, what do I do next?  Do I need to install something else, or should
it really be ready to run out of the box?  

I need to produce PDF and HTML, and I'd like to be able to produce
Windows (HTML?) help and perhaps even TeX/LaTeX and RTF.  I suspect
there's an easy answer that I just haven't found.

Thanks,

Bill
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Bill Harris            
Facilitated Systems    
http://facilitatedsystems.com/   
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