Newbie questions on DocBook setup

Hello,

    I'm pretty  new to DocBook which I am currently considering as a
    possible replacement for MS Word based creation of technical
    documentation. My main requirement are the possibility of generating
    multiple output formats based on one common source (typically PDF
    and CHM), input based on source independent documents, and markup,
    not Wysiwig orientated document generation. 

    My other requirement is that I need to use DocBook on plain Windows
    XP or Windows 7 based systems, and if possible from within Visual
    Studio 2008 or 2010.

    I played around for example with Oxygen and also the hints on how to
    enable Visual Studio Intellisense for DocBook I found on Implicit
      Operator but Intellisense with Visual Studio seems to be
    broken as soon as I use XInclude. Oxygen is quite nice, supports
    XInclude, however I have had a bit of problems to use cross file
    references and links. Appart from that I would prefer our developers
    not to be required to use/learn yet another tool in addition to
    those they have to do already.

    I wonder if there is anybody who has similar requirements and has
    setup a comparable system already that could provide hints where to
    put what on a standard Windows system, if possible without
    installing Cygwin etc. Also basic document examples with cross-file
    linking are welcome.

    

    Thanks,  Martin