If you select RULEML as the output, you get an error, regardless of input:
>> John creates a card.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<apeResult>
<messages>
<message
importance="error"
type="ws"
sentence=""
token=""
value="error(type_error(sgml_content,named(John)),_7082)"
repair="Fatal error. Please send screenshot to APE developers."/>
</messages>
</apeResult>