Xtext

Xtext is a grammar language created in 2006.

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Xtext is an open-source software framework for developing programming languages and domain-specific languages (DSLs). Unlike standard parser generators, Xtext generates not only a parser, but also a class model for the abstract syntax tree, as well as providing a fully featured, customizable Eclipse-based IDE.Xtext is being developed in the Eclipse Project as part of the Eclipse Modeling Framework Project and is licensed under the Eclipse Public License.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Example from the web:

grammar org.eclipse.xtext.common.Terminals 
    hidden(WS, ML_COMMENT, SL_COMMENT)
 
import "http://www.eclipse.org/emf/2002/Ecore" as ecore
 
terminal ID: 
    '^'?('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'_')('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'_'|'0'..'9')*;
 
terminal INT returns ecore::EInt: 
    ('0'..'9')+;
 
terminal STRING: 
    '"' ( '\\'('b'|'t'|'n'|'f'|'r'|'u'|'"'|"'"|'\\') | !('\\'|'"') )* '"' |
    "'" ( '\\'('b'|'t'|'n'|'f'|'r'|'u'|'"'|"'"|'\\') | !('\\'|"'") )* "'";
 
terminal ML_COMMENT: 
    '/*' -> '*/';
 
terminal SL_COMMENT: 
    '//' !('\n'|'\r')* ('\r'? '\n')?;
 
terminal WS: 
    (' '|'\t'|'\r'|'\n')+;
 
terminal ANY_OTHER: 
    .;

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Mixins	✓		grammar org.example.domainmodel.Domainmodel with org.eclipse.xtext.common.Terminals
File Imports	✓		import "http://www.xtext.org/example/Domainmodel" import "http://www.xtext.org/example/Domainmodel" as dmodel

Books about Xtext from ISBNdb

title	authors	year	publisher
Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend	Bettini, Lorenzo	2013	Packt Publishing
Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend	Bettini, Lorenzo	2013	Packt Publishing
Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend	Lorenzo Bettini	31-08-2016	Packt Publishing

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Books about Xtext from ISBNdb