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Mon, 27 May 2013 04:35

Eclipse User

Hi everyone,

I am new to XText, so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. But I would like to have these information before I invest days or weeks of learning.

What I would like to do is use XText to create a domain specific language which will be translated to a scripting language of a specific program. Is it possible to generate something else than Java code by defining the output grammer and suchlike?

Greetings

Re: New Target Language [message #1060642 is a reply to message #1060594]

Mon, 27 May 2013 08:51

Eclipse User

Yes, the generator can generate any kind of code.

Re: New Target Language [message #1060655 is a reply to message #1060642]

Mon, 27 May 2013 10:03

Eclipse User

thank you, thats the answer I hoped to read Smile

Re: New Target Language [message #1060751 is a reply to message #1060642]

Tue, 28 May 2013 07:06

Eclipse User

Hi,

do you have a link for a tutorial or something else? I wrote my first small grammer and would like to translate it to a xml file. But I can't find anything about how to do this. The only thing I found was XSD and XPAND in the documentation of Eclipse Indigo. How Can I do this with Xtend or do I have to use something else? Currently I use Eclipse Juno.

Thx

Re: New Target Language [message #1060756 is a reply to message #1060751]

Tue, 28 May 2013 07:23

Eclipse User

http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/documentation.html#TutorialCodeGeneration
should give you a nice starting point, I reckon?
It is java based but you can see the static and dynamic parts of the code to be generated, it should be pretty straightforward for other languages.
And, just to prove that other languages are indeed possible:
http://christiandietrich.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/xtext-model-visualization-with-plantuml/

[Updated on: Tue, 28 May 2013 07:32] by Moderator

Re: New Target Language [message #1060757 is a reply to message #1060751]

Tue, 28 May 2013 07:25

Eclipse User

Have a look at the 15 mins example extended from the docs

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Re: New Target Language [message #1060758 is a reply to message #1060594]

Tue, 28 May 2013 07:38

Eclipse User

ok thank you, I'll work that through

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