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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

P. Neubauer, A. Bergmayr, T. Mayerhofer, J. Troya, M. Wimmer:
"XMLText: From XML Schema to Xtext";
Talk: International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE), Pittsburg, USA; 2015-09-25 - 2015-09-27; in: "Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE)", ACM, LNCS 8706 (2015), ISBN: 978-3-319-11244-2; 71 - 76.



English 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 as a machine-processible format, artifacts defined with XML-based 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 Xtext-based 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.

Keywords:
DSL, Language Engineering, Markup Language, Language Modernization, XSD, Xtext


Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_240467.pdf



Related Projects:
Project Head Gerti Kappel:
Advanced software-based seRvice provisioning and migraTIon of legacy Software


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