hello,
i looked thoroughly trough project document you provide. I can do required work following your requirements. I would do it in delphi 7 , and although there no special tricky parts there will be a lot of hard coding ( to create parser , and to follow all instruction - range checking etc.) . I will also need some time ( my prediction is 2 weeks ) in order to make this apps work as fast as possible, but i already calculated this time in project bid.
Last year i did some parsing project for XML files used in accounting and there where almost equal number of things that needs to be checked. Because of nature of data i was parsing i was used binary search algorithm .
In your project i will pay special attention on speeding up opening / closing files ( i think that will consume most of time) .
Im hoping that we will do this project,
Kind regards,
Gordan Paunovic