Presentation
XMLText: From XML Schema to Xtext
Author/s | Neubauer, Patrick
Bergmayr, Alexander Mayerhofer, Tanja Troya Castilla, Javier Wimmer, Manuel |
Department | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos |
Publication Date | 2015 |
Deposit Date | 2018-04-24 |
Published in |
|
ISBN/ISSN | 978-1-4503-3686-4 |
Abstract | 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 ... 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. |
Funding agencies | European Commission (EC) |
Project ID. | 317859 (ICT Policy Support Programme) |
Citation | Neubauer, P., Bergmayr, A., Mayerhofer, T., Troya Castilla, J. y Wimmer, M. (2015). XMLText: From XML Schema to Xtext. En SLE 2015: ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (71-76), Pittsburgh, PA, USA: ACM Digital Library. |
Files | Size | Format | View | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
XMLText.pdf | 419.0Kb | [PDF] | View/ | |