PadXml 1.0.1 – Portable Application Description editor

[AlexanderT]

Hello,

I ran into a situation where some software platforms still require PAD files for submitting software, even though the format is considered outdated. Since existing PAD editors are either very old or inconvenient to use, I decided to create a simple utility for editing PAD files.

The application edits PAD files through class properties using the Lazarus property editor. It also allows configuring XML settings such as indentation, encoding, and other parameters via the XmlConfig property tree, and provides filtering by all properties and values for easy search and editing.

It can also edit third-party PAD files while trying not to lose their data when saving, preserving the order of root tags and specific XML formatting details.

The project is open-source, licensed under the MIT License. GitHub:
https://github.com/plaintool/padxml

Version 1.0.1
https://github.com/plaintool/padxml/releases/latest

[AlexanderT]

Changelog
## [v1.0.1](https://github.com/plaintool/padxml/tree/v1.0.1) (2026-02-05)

Added
- CI/CD pipeline for automatic builds on Windows and Linux, created with Codex
- Installation packages for Debian (.deb) and Fedora (.rpm)