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xMarkup Text Transformation Utility

xMarkup is a text transformation utility for processing of a set of text files. Supports ANSI and UTF-8 encodings. The transformations performed by utility can be extremely complicated comparing to ordinal search&replace procedures. Actually the utility uses a procedural language, with help of which any algorithms of text transformations can be implemented. However, using of these procedural extensions are needed only for a few cases. For most cases it is enough to define start and stop marks for searched text elements and describe templates of their transformation. Processing may be organized as one single step (script) or many sequental steps (script-by-script). Each xMarkup script may be builded as binary executable file to boost performance.

xMarkup utility can be successfuly used for following tasks:

• generate or edit the navigational cross-references within a set of html-documents;
• analyze and convert the structure and/or content of SGML/XML/HTML documents;
• edit text files in the batch mode;
• analyse and processing of text files: extract and transform the text elements;
• graphical visualizations of text elements;
• applied analysis, processing and visualization of symbolic data.

xMarkup for MS Windows includes GUI and console engine written in Icon Programming Language. Starting with version 3.4 programming environment of xMarkup was ported to Unicon Programming Language. Unicon is a next generation of Icon and on 100% compatible with it. Unlike Icon it's dynamically developing and completly supports Windows OS (Icon was developed before Windows times). Unicon greatly extends the features of xMarkup, for example:

• object-oriented approach in programming;
• integration in one program a few packages;
• using of graphics;
• working with databases through ODBC driver;
• multithreading;
• extended set of built-in functions;
• dynamical loading of library functions implemented in C and other languages (Unix).

As Icon (Unicon) is a cross-platform language (similar to Java) xMarkup utility may be used on any system, which supports this language. At the moment Icon/Unicon are available for many *NIX systems:

• Linux x86/x64
• FreeBSD x86/x64
• SUN Solaris on SPARC
• Darwin and X for Macintosh
• CygWin for Windows

Additionally, Icon available for other non-Windows systems (full list).

To use xMarkup on non-Windows system you shall install Icon or Unicon and then build utility from the source code (see instruction).

• The Icon distributions for different UNIX systems are availaible from Icon Project Home http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/.
• Unicon msybe build for different platforms from the sources available at git repositary.
• The sources of xMarkup are available at git repositary.

Initially GUI of utility was developed with help of Delphi 7. Starting with version 3.2 xMarkup GUI was ported to open-source Lazarus IDE. So, it's became possible to port it to Linux and Mac OS too.

Author knows examples when Windows-binaries of xMarkup without any changes were run with Wine on POSIX-compatible systems.

An example of graphical visualization by xMarkup:

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xMarkup User's Guide