Hi. I am a bit a neewbee in programming reardless programming has been part more than half of my life.

I am programming most in an integrated programming language of a larger software package. The IDE of the language is very rough, though sublime looks like a good alternative. There is an external compiler for the programming code, which I got to work fine with sublime so far. But the sourcecode has to be an XML file, which contains in the end resources, cryptic settings and definition parts and several source code parts itself.
In the moment I have all parts of the program in one subfolder, which is merged by a copy command inside of a batch file into one single xml-file. Is there a smarter way, best platform independent, which does the linking, best with modal linking (e.g. if source file is empty drop this section).

I know, higher level languages come with a make and linker command, but this is missing in my case. The software chimes in, when the single xml file is complete.

Thanks for any help.