Daniele Fusi

 shared core: C# in.NET 3.5 (LINQ to XML; original version used C# 2.0)  storage: XML (UTF-8 Unicode)  Word-processor import: MS Open Office XML-based import tools (SDK version 2.0, DOCX format = zipped XML)

 desktop UI: WPF (MVVM pattern; original version used WinForms)  web RIA UI: Silverlight 2 (MVVM pattern)  web infrastructure:  ASP.NET 3.5  SQL Server 2008  WCF services  export: XML, XHTML + CSS via XSLT + C# extensions, XPS

 generic document management API  storage-specific implementations:  file-based (desktop applications)  RAM-based (unit testing)  web-based (Silverlight applications)  key objects: work (=whole dictionary), work structure (=metadata), item, field, field attribute

 field styles defined in each dictionary (XML metadata)  generic output rendering API  format-specific implementations:  HTML (generic export)  XAML (for desktop UI, WPF-based, XPS)  rich text format XML dialect (for Silverlight UI)

 export tools in editors:  XML with flattening and fields and text preprocessing (for DTP)  HTML+CSS preview  import tools in editors:  flattened XML back to Zandic XML, thus incorporating last-minute changes in DTP

 Mobipocket-based solution (portable): editor tool (ZanCheck):  dictionary validation and automatic corrections  automatically generates Mobipocket-compliant XML files and metadata; merges different language sections (e.g. Italian – English, English – Italian)

 ASP.NET 3.5 application:  direct search on XML files, no preprocessing or indexing required  user simple or complex queries: scope (letters, fields), literal, wildcards, full regular expression (.NET engine)  HTML output via XSLT + C# extensions