publications:
- title: "Declarative Specification of Template-Based Textual Editors"
author:
- name: "Tobi Vollebregt"
link: "http://www.tobivollebregt.nl/"
year: "2012"
month: "April"
doi: "http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8907468c-b102-4a35-aa84-d49bb2110541"
abstract: "Syntax discoverability has been a crucial advantage of structure editors for new users of a language. Despite this advantage, structure editors have not been widely adopted. Nevertheless, the Cheetah system, developed at Capgemini, leverages a structure editor to aid domain experts modeling tax-benefit rules in a domain specific language. The structure editor suffers from a lack of free form editing and conversions from/to plain text. The Spoofax language workbench, developed at Delft University of Technology, uses a textual editor, which is syntax-aware due to immediate parsing and analyses. In this thesis we describe a migration from Cheetah to Spoofax, which aims to bring the advantages of text editing to the tax-benefit rule modeling language. During the migration, we experienced that current text-based language workbenches, such as Spoofax, require redundant specification of the ingredients for a template-based editor, which is detrimental to the quality of syntactic completion, as consistency and completeness of the definition cannot be guaranteed. We describe the design and implementation of a specification language for syntax definition based on templates. It unifies the specification of parser, pretty printer and template-based editor. We evaluate the template language by application to the tax-benefit rule modeling language and a language for mobile web applications."
links:
doi: "http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8907468c-b102-4a35-aa84-d49bb2110541"
"pdf": "http://repository.tudelft.nl/assets/uuid:8907468c-b102-4a35-aa84-d49bb2110541/thesis-final.pdf"
"tud repository": "http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8907468c-b102-4a35-aa84-d49bb2110541"
tags:
- "workbench"
- "rule-based"
- "syntax definition"
- "completeness"
- "model editor"
- "meta-model"
- "modeling language"
- "modeling"
- "language modeling"
- "language design"
- "rules"
- "migration"
- "web applications"
- "consistency"
- "language workbench"
- "Spoofax"
- "Meta-Environment"
- "parsing"
- "domain-specific language"
researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/Vollebregt2012"
cites: 0
citedby: 0
school: "Delft University of Technology"
address: "Delft, The Netherlands"
advisor:
- name: "Eelco Visser"
link: "http://eelcovisser.org"
- name: "Lennart C. L. Kats"
link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/"
kind: "mastersthesis"
key: "Vollebregt2012"