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FreeWare >> gbXML >> Introduction gbXML - Introduction
gbXML uses a single database to store the description of multiple languages. Users may add, delete, and edit languages, including their various attributes and elements (such as tokensets, tokens, validscopes and memberlists). XML formatted language definition files are exported from the common database for use with CodeMax projects.

To fully utilize gbXML you will want to understand the XML format of the language definition files. I strongly suggest reading the XML Format section before reading other parts of this online help.

gbXML is distributed with an existing database of languages, as well as with the corresponding XML formatted language definition files and a limited set of memberlist files. Location of these files is discussed below.

gbXML is also distributed with the freeware code librarian gbCodeLib.

Here's an image of the gbXML main window:


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Basic operation of gbXML consists of adding/deleting/editing languages and their sub-elements, followed by export of the information to XML formatted language definition files which can be used by programs which utilize the CodeMax editor control.

The sections of the main gbXML window are discussed below:

Language Frame
The current list of languages is displayed, as are tokensets within the language and all language-level attributes

Tokenset Frame
The properties of the selected tokenset (from the Language Frame) are displayed.

XML Code
The XML formatted language definition is shown here, as it would look when exported. The language definition file is not created until the user specifically requests it. This is a CodeMax control with an XML language definition file applied.

Sample Display
The XML formatted language definition is applied to the content of this textbox. Different sample text can be assigned by the user for each language. This is a CodeMax control.

For user convenience, gbXML also provides a simple viewer/editor of XML language definition files:

Language File Viewer
The gbXML viewer window is shown in the next image. It provides viewing, printing, and manual editing of all exported XML formatted language definition files. At this time, the Viewer only displays files in the default language file export folder discussed below.

File Locations
The language definition files distributed with gbXML are located in the /language_def/ subfolder where gbXML is installed. This is the folder to which all exported language definition files will be written.

It is also the default folder which the Import function will open by default. But the Import dialog also has the option to browse to any folder to locate a language definition file to open.

The memberlist files distributed with gbXML are located in the /language_def/ subfolder where gbXML is installed, but the folder may be changed by the user. All memberlist files in this folder are loaded at gbXML startup and are available to all languages.

Limitations

  • Custom TokenRules
    At this time, customer tokenrules are not supported by gbXML
  • Tokenset Limits
    gbXML limits the number of Tokenset elements to 50
  • Validscope Limit
    gbXML limits the number of validscopes a tokenset can have to 10
  • Duplicate Language Names
    gbXML allows two languages to have the same name, but I'm still evaluating the option to see if it causes problems with data corruption. I recommend NOT giving the same name to two langauges.
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