Visual XML editor

**==project briefing==** a WYSIWYG editor of XML text, markup is performed by change font color and style, user doesn't need to know anything about XML. ## Deliverables **==User interface==** +--------------------------------+ | menu and buttons | +--------------------------------+ | open file tab | +--------------------------------+ | list | | | of | | | tags | text editing region | | | | | |-------------------------+ | | attribute region | +--------------------------------+ **menu and buttons:** menu for open/save files, copy/cut/paste, switching opened files. buttons for inserting a markup. (customized by external setting file) operation of text selection: clear all tags in selection. mark selection. ( use last markup ) **open file tab:** opened files are shown here. ( see EMEDITOR 5.0 ) click on tab change current editing file. **list of tags:** display all tags of current editing file, can be sorted by sequence in text, or by element type. position the editor caret by clicking on tag. list of tags should be changed immediately when switching to other files. **editing region** basic text operation: input text, copy/cut/paste, selection, etc. make a text selection , and click on buttons to add a markup. (empty-element can be insert without having a selection) must check if the text selection is allowed to add markup. for example, the following selection is invalid aaa <WHO>xxxx</WHO> is |<----------->| cannot add markup to this selection **attribute region** when caret is inside an element, user can modify attribute in this region. possible attributes of an element are defined by settings file. users can only modify attribute values. **==Technical requirement==** support UTF-16 and/or UTF-8 all settings file must be unicode. use TntUnicode controls set user TntRichEdit for editing region. **==output file format==** the output file is a non-nested XML. the only element which allow childnode is root element, for XML compatible. simply put, all tags are immediate descendant of <FILE> <FILE> xxxx<TAG>xxxxx</TAG>xxxxx xxxx<EMPTYTAG/>xxxxx xxx<TAG>xxxxx</TAG> xxx </FILE> **==setting file==** setting file describes the tag set and their visual appearance, it is a utf-8 INI file. there are two types of element, non-empty and empy. sample of setting file: [ELEMENT0] name=name of element empty=1|0 font=Arial color=$RRGGBB bgcolor=$RRGGBB style=bold|italic|strike|underline ;defination of attributes of ELEMENT0 [ELEMENT0_ATTRIBUTE0] name=name of attribute required=1|0 datatype=date|string|integer|float|time|datetime ; predefined tag set [ELEMENT0] name=WHO empty=0 color=$7faf3f [ELEMENT0_ATTRIBUTE0] name=id required=1 datatype=integer [ELEMENT0_ATTRIBUTE1] name=normalize required=0 datatype=string therefore the output of <WHO id="1" normalize="xxxx">XxXx</WHO> ======================= 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables): a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment. b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). ## Platform Delphi 7.0 or above non .NET Windows XP/2000