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Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) [message #1257552]

Wed, 26 February 2014 10:08

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Hello everyone,

I've implemented a serialization mechanism for serializing my .dsl-files as XMI.
Now I wanted to know wheter it is right so say, that these kind of representation is
the current AST of my parsed textual grammar? The Xtext-Documentation says in chap. 12.1 : Xtext uses EMF models as the in-memory representation of any parsed text ﬁles. This in-memory object graph is called the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)

So it should be the same. As an example I took a screenshot of my serialized .dsl file (instance of my metamodel) and created a AST by hand (the old-school way Smile