Colorer Library new features

30 January 2003

Internal unicode support

• Knows about utf8, utf16, utf16be, utf32, utf32be.
• Any single-byte encodings support.

Different input data sources

• File stream.
• Zip stream.
• Http stream (win32 only).

New internal structure redesign

• Internal classes rearragement.
• Flexible architecture.
• Abstraction of independent components.

New central repository

• All Colorer applications uses repository in catalog.xml file.
• Automatic catalog.xml searching with environment variables and standard locations.
• Multiple HRC sources, directory HRC source.
• HRD classes, names and descriptions.
• Global logging file.

New HRC structrure design

• Buildin file type declaration.
• Each type has it's own namespaces.
• Free linking between schemas (forward inheritance and switch references).
• HRC Region information extension, region inheritance, transparent HRC linking.
• HRC Entities, regexp and block flexible declarations using CDATA sections.

New HRC XML-based languages

• XML, DTD, XHTML, XSLT, XSLFO, XMLSchema, docbook, others.
• Strict XML, DTD support.
• Autogenerating HRC from XML Schema (or DTD) descriptions with XSLT.
• Strict syntax and logic structure validation.
• XML Schema types support.

New and modified languages support

• C#, asp, jsp, mason, FlexScript.

Colorer.exe

• Console viewing with unicode characters (win32).
• Colorized HTML output from rgb HRD color schemas.
• Simple file forward with encoding conversion.
• HTML and file output into stdout or specified file.

FAR Plugin

• Top level highlight caching, parse on request (FAR >= 1.70).
• File Encoding selection.
• Color schemes dialog selection.