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GMF-Epsilon transformation [message #516819]

Thu, 25 February 2010 09:46

Zied

Messages: 26
Registered: February 2010

Junior Member

hi,
I'm working to realise an advanced flowchart editor.
my problem is that I want to Construct my nodes from an XML schema when the editor is in initialisation phase.
it's too difficult to do Confused

, but I'm asking if there are a M2M tool like EOL or whatever other tool to resolve this problem. Sad

[Updated on: Thu, 25 February 2010 09:49]

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Re: GMF-Epsilon transformations [message #516826 is a reply to message #516819]

Thu, 25 February 2010 09:54

Dimitrios Kolovos

Messages: 1776
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Zied,

Just to clarify this, do you need to transform an XML Schema (.xsd file)
or an XML file that conforms to this schema into an instance of your
flowchart metamodel?

Cheers,
Dimitris

Zied wrote:
> hi,
> I'm working to realise an advanced flowchart editor.
> my problem is that I want to Construct my nodes from an XML schema when
> the editor is in initialisation phase.
> it's too difficult to do :? , but I'm asking if there are a M2M tool
> like EOL or whatever other tool to resolve this problem. :(

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Re: GMF-Epsilon transformations [message #516835 is a reply to message #516826]

Thu, 25 February 2010 10:11

Zied

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Registered: February 2010

Junior Member

Hi Dimitris,
I want to add custom nodes to my editor so I need to generate new types that implement a basic type "IShape" , the new types are defined in an XML file.
I'm not using XSD file yet.

portion of the XML file

<Nodes>
        <Action alt="Action.png" type="IShape"> </Action>
</Nodes>

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Re: GMF-Epsilon transformations [message #516845 is a reply to message #516835]

Thu, 25 February 2010 11:02

Dimitrios Kolovos

Messages: 1776
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Zied,

So what you really need is your palette to be configured by this XML
file. I'm not aware of any built-in support for this in GMF (let alone
in EuGENia) so my guess is that you'll have to code your way through
this (i.e. modify/extend the generated GMF code). Unfortunately, I don't
have much experience with this so I can't provide any more detailed
hints as to how you should go about doing this.

Cheers,
Dimitris

Zied wrote:
> Hi Dimitris,
> I want to add custom nodes to my editor so I need to generate new types
> that implement a basic type "IShape" , the new types are defined in an
> XML file.
> I'm not using XSD file yet.
>
> portion of the XML file
>
> <Nodes>
> <Action alt="Action.png" type="IShape"> </Action>
> </Nodes>
>

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