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New Target Language [message #1060594]

Mon, 27 May 2013 08:35

anduril elendil

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Registered: May 2013

Junior Member

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

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

Mon, 27 May 2013 12:51

Claudio Heeg

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Registered: April 2013

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Yes, the generator can generate any kind of code.

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

Mon, 27 May 2013 14:03

anduril elendil

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Registered: May 2013

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thank you, thats the answer I hoped to read Smile

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

Tue, 28 May 2013 11:06

anduril elendil

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Registered: May 2013

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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

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

Tue, 28 May 2013 11:23

Claudio Heeg

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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 11:32]

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

Tue, 28 May 2013 11:25

Christian Dietrich

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Registered: July 2009

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

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