Sydock DP allows for text editing in a visual ( WYSIWYG ) form. This means that you don't have to deal with an XML-code, but with a regular text, same as you would do using a regular text processor (for example, MS WORD) As you type your text, Sydock DP automatically forms a correct XML document in accordance with the selected W3C XML schema.

Sydock Document Processor makes use of XSLT и CSS to visualize and edit XML documents. Unlike other XML-document editors, which use only CSS, the realization of a native XSLT processor in Sydock DP allows for visualization and editing not only the whole document, but also for creating a necessary view to visualize and edit only certain elements, parts of a big XML document.

Visual Style Editor

Creating styles is easy with Sydock, even if you are not familiar with the XSL - language for creating styles. A Sydock DP built-in style editor presents style editing in a visual ( WYSIWYG ) form. The editor includes a set of ready-made form controls (check-boxes, combo-boxes, text-fields, drop-down lists etc.), so you can insert them into your document wherever you need them. If you are a professional designer and want to create more complicated schemas, a text style editor is at your service.

XML Visual Schema Editor

The Sydock DP built-in XML Schema Editor facilitates XML schema editing by presenting it in an easily perceived graphic form - in the form of a tree of elements.

Automated Validation

Sydock DP automatically checks all the information entered by the user for its accordance with the designated XML schema and highlights errors. The validation is performed on the client's side, which considerably lightens the server validation scripts. The analysis employs the recommended W3C dialect of XML, highly appropriate for applications processing both data and structured text arrays.

Spell Checking

Sydock DP has an in-built module for automatic spell checking.

Interaction with Web-Services

Sydock DP can exchange information with external web-services and databases. It enables you not only to base the internal documents circulation on Sydock, but also automate data exchange with your business partners.

Internationalization

You will feel comfortable using our software, irrespective of your mother tongue. Sydock DP allows you to create XML-schemasand documents in any any language as easily as in English. Besides, the Sydock DP interface will soon be available in other languages.

Intuitive User Interface

The Sydock DP interface is implemented in the familiar to any user MS Office style, so you won't have to spend long hours studying how the program works. Besides, we made the interface highly customizable, and you can easily adapt it for your particular needs.

Advanced Database Connectivity

Sydock DP is fully compatible with ODBC and ADO databases, so don't hesitate to switch to the newer technology. With Sydock you must not be afraid of losing any information. ODBC and ADO support includes the import feature and the conversion of the database schema into the XML schema.

Stylesheet Editor

Repeating Sections

Sydock forms can have sections that repeat. The initial view starts with one section, and users can add more sections when and if necessary. The repeating section control enables form designers to identify sections and table rows that can be repeated by the user when filling out a form.

Conditional Formatting

Form designers can apply conditional formatting to fields and sections, causing them to appear in specific ways when specific conditions are met.

Optional Sections

Form designers can add optional sections. These sections can be called up by following a prompt specified in the section’s Property field. A user might see the prompt, “Click here to insert a Time Report” at the bottom of a Status Report form. By clicking on that prompt, the form will display the optional time report, which would not otherwise be visible. This control enables designers to identify data sections that will be added on demand by the end user.

Standard Control Toolbox

Sydock includes all the controls that designers expect from a forms design package—from text box and drop-down list box controls to controls for rich text boxes, option buttons,hyperlinks, pictures, expression boxes, as well as optional and repeating sections.

Managing Controls

SDP enables designers to convert a control from one type to another. It also enables designers to rebind a control to a different field or group in the schema.

Customize Control Properties

SDP provides designers with an interface for changing the characteristics of controls. The font size, colors, and options for a combobox, for example, can all be customized.

Button Control with Built-in Behaviors

SDP provides designers with button controls that are predefined. With a predefined button for submitting form data, for example, a form designer need only specify the database, Web service, or server to which the data should be sent; there is no complicated coding involved. Similarly, the designer need only specify a database, Web service, or server in order to instigate a query that will result in form data being gathered. The complexities of creating the query have already been taken care of.

Text Box

Used for gathering input that does not require complex formatting.

Memo Edit

Used for gathering input that requires support for paragraph breaks, font formatting, etc.

Table

Drop-down

Used for displaying a drop-down list.

Date Picker (Calendar Control)

Used for selecting dates from a calendar.

Check Box

Used for controlling an exclusive list of options.

Radio Button

Used for controlling a non-exclusive list of options.

Section

Used for delineating simple data sections. Other controls can be inserted inside this section.

Button

Used to insert a button on a form for running a script, refreshing a DOM, or submitting a document.

Hyperlink

Used to insert a hyperlink bound to data in the document.

Picture

Used for enabling a user to import a picture and bind it to the document.

Views

Set of representations for one document

Sydock DP allows for text editing in a visual ( WYSIWYG ) form. This means that you don't have to deal with an XML-code, but with a regular text, same as you would do using a regular text processor (for example, MS WORD) As you type your text, Sydock automatically forms a correct XML document in accordance with the selected W3C XML schema.

WYSIWYG

Source Text

Visual Style Editor

Creating styles is easy with Sydock, even if you are not familiar with the XSL - language for creating styles. A Sydock DP built-in style editor presents style editing in a visual ( WYSIWYG ) form. The editor includes a set of ready-made form controls (check-boxes, combo-boxes, text-fields, drop-down lists etc.), so you can insert them into your document wherever you need them. If you are a professional designer and want to create more complicated schemas, a text style editor is at your service.

Editing

Insert available elements Hint

Insert available elements into the current and parent elements Hint, with an explanation of why the insertion may not be possible.

Automated creation of element content based on the schema.

Working with mixed content

Visual tag formatting. The formatting is accomplished by changing font styles, colors or icons.

Tree View

Document viewing and editing in tree representation.

Helper-Actions

Special elements of the user interface, which recognize a document’s contents dynamically and suggest actions depending on the recognition results.

Working with the Clipboard

Unlimited Undo/Redo

Unlimited document structure and text Undo/Redo.

Code templates

Schema

Automated Validation

Sydock DP automatically checks all the information entered by the user for its accordance with the designated XML schema and highlights errors. The validation is performed on the client's side, which considerably lightens the server validation scripts. The analysis employs the recommended W3C dialect of XML, highly appropriate for applications processing both data and structured text arrays.

Schema type Viewer

Miscellaneous

Templates Publishing

SDP templates can easily be published to a shared folder on the local network or a Web server.

Submit

Information in an SDP form can be submitted directly to a Web service, a URL, a database, or similar destination. SDP enables users to submit form data to an HTTP server, using the POST method, or to a Web service through the SOAP protocol. Designers can also type in custom messages to be presented upon the success or failure of submission, as well as specify what should happen to the form upon submission (remain open, close, etc.).

Sample Templates

Sydock Document Processor provides numerous sample forms that can be easily customized in design mode to fit specific business needs. SDP also provides sample forms that can be used as a designer resource, demonstrating how SDP can automate and be integrated into a number of different business processes.

Spell Checking

XML Schema Editor

Schema Editor

The Sydock DP built-in XML Schema Editor facilitates XML schema editing by presenting it in an easily perceived graphic form - in the form of a tree of elements. Support of simple and complex elements, attributes, types.

Internationalization

SDP allows to appoint to elements user-friendly aleases and annotations on set of languages.

Built - in Types

SDP supports set of the built - in types of the data, such as: String, Integer, Float, Date, Time, dateTime, Boolean, Binary, Text, Postcode, SKU, E-mail.

Custom Data Types

SDP allows to create own types of the data, including Mixed Content.