XMLText: From XML Schema to Xtext
| Autor: | Alexander Bergmayr, Patrick Neubauer, Tanja Mayerhofer, Javier Troya, Manuel Wimmer |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, European Commission (EC) |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Document Structure Description
Xtext business.industry Computer science Programming language XSD Efficient XML Interchange XML Signature XML validation computer.file_format computer.software_genre DSL Language engineering XML Schema Editor Markup Language Streaming XML ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING Language Modernization RELAX NG XML schema Software engineering business computer computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla instname SLE |
| Popis: | A multitude of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) have been implemented with XML Schemas. While such DSLs are well adopted and flexible, they miss modern DSL editor functionality. Moreover, since XML is primarily designed as a machine-processible format, artifacts defined with XMLbased DSLs lack comprehensibility and, therefore, maintainability. In order to tackle these shortcomings, we propose a bridge between the XML Schema Definition (XSD) language and text-based metamodeling languages. This bridge exploits existing seams between the technical spaces XMLware, modelware, and grammarware as well as closes identified gaps. The resulting approach is able to generate Xtextbased editors from XSDs providing powerful editor functionality, customization options for the textual concrete syntax style, and round-trip transformations enabling the exchange of data between the involved technical spaces. We evaluate our approach by a case study on TOSCA, which is an XML-based standard for defining Cloud deployments. The results show that our approach enables bridging XMLware with modelware and grammarware in several ways going beyond existing approaches and allows the automated generation of editors that are at least equivalent to editors manually built for XML-based languages. European Commission ICT Policy Support Programme 317859 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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