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Source to Source transformation with epsilon [message #1075591]

Mon, 29 July 2013 17:51

kwaku sandy

Messages: 12
Registered: July 2013

Junior Member

I'm a complete beginner to epsilon so need help here.
I'm trying to do a source to source transformation (i.e a text to text transformation, e.g .somelanguage1 to .somelanguage2).
First question is, can i do this with epsilon and if i can, what will be the workflow.
From the little i've read from the epsilon book and website, i can do model-model transformation with ETL and then model-text transformation(code-generation) with EGL.
My question is how do i translate my text-model.
This is what i think the workflow should look like:

Text-Model(???) -> Model-Model(ETL) -> Model-Text(EGL)

How do i perform the first step i.e. the question mark ???

If epsilon is not the right language for my task, what do you recommend.

Your response is much appreciated.
Thanks a lot.

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Re: Source to Source transformation with epsilon [message #1075608 is a reply to message #1075591]

Mon, 29 July 2013 18:33

Dimitris Kolovos

Messages: 2163
Registered: July 2009
Location: York, UK

Senior Member

Hi,

For the text-to-model part of your workflow you could try Xtext [1] or EMFText [2]. Both of these parse text into EMF resources so they will work fine with ETL/EGL.

Cheers,
Dimitris

[1] http://www.xtext.org
[2] http://www.emftext.org/

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