Dear XMLmind, I wonder if you can tell me if I have correctly installed XMLmind XMLeditor. Please bear with me as I explain what I have done.: I downloaded <http://www.xmlmind.net/xmleditor/_download/xxe-std-3_1_0.zip> xxe-std-3_1_0.zip from http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml and unzipped it into a temporary directory but I couldn't find any instructions for installing it. According to http://www.happy-monkey.net/docbook/gui-editor.html, there is a Windows setup binary which makes installation very easy, but I couldn't find one. I found the userguide.pdf (and also an html copy on the website) but that only gave me manual instructions for installing the product (section 1.3). So I followed those. The instructions say to "Make sure that the Java[tm]bin/ directory is referenced in the $PATH and, at the same time, check that the Java[tm] runtime in the $PATH has the right version:" So I Google searched $PATH to find out what that meant. It's an environment variable that you access from the Control Panel > System > Advanced. I had already installed DITA from sourceforge but had forgotten how $PATH was accessed. Anyway, $PATH refers to JAVA_HOME and JAVA_HOME is set to C:\DITA_toolkit\J2SDK rather than C:\DITA_toolkit\J2SDK\bin. Is that sufficient? The next task was to understand what was meant by "$ java -version" in section 1.2. I presume this is a UNIX instruction. I attended a half day UNIX course in 1975 and haven't done much UNIX since then. So I opened a command window with Start > Run... but it didn't work. It didn't recognise the dollar. Then, glancing at the $ cd line in point 2, I wondered if $ was a UNIX prompt. So I opened a command window again and tried "java -version" without the dollar. That worked! The version was slightly different but I didn't know what to do about that. The next task was to interpret the instructions in point 2. I decided to open a command window again. cd didn't do anything tar zxvf xxe-std-3_1_0.tar.gz wasn't recognized tar xxe-std-3_1_0.zip wasn't recognized Eventually I decided that tar must be a UNIX equivalent to Winzip so I unzipped it with Windows. Was that correct? I remember that ls is a UNIX list command so I ignored it. Point 3 recommended adding xxe to the path, which by now I think I understand.What happens if I don't. Reading section 1.3 gave me the idea of adding a shortcut to xxe.bat on the desktop. Finally, double-clicking the shortcut opened XMLmind XMLeditor giving me a blank XMLeditor screen. My questions are... is there an easier way to install the editor, and have I missed anything vital? Thanks, Stephen Ogley
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