{"title":"A predicate-based approach to defining visual language syntax","authors":"J. Janneck, R. Esser","doi":"10.1109/HCC.2001.995232","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an approach to the specification of visual language syntax. Based on attributed graphs as the notion of abstract syntax, syntactical correctness is specified by a set of predicates over that structure. The proposed technique facilitates the natural embedding of other visual and textual notations, the definition of complex syntactic and static-semantic properties, as well as a precise error diagnosis and localization. An editing environment supporting this technique is briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":438014,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE Symposia on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments (Cat. No.01TH8587)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings IEEE Symposia on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments (Cat. No.01TH8587)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HCC.2001.995232","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper presents an approach to the specification of visual language syntax. Based on attributed graphs as the notion of abstract syntax, syntactical correctness is specified by a set of predicates over that structure. The proposed technique facilitates the natural embedding of other visual and textual notations, the definition of complex syntactic and static-semantic properties, as well as a precise error diagnosis and localization. An editing environment supporting this technique is briefly discussed.