Building an Enhanced Syntax-Directed Processing Environment for XML Documents by Combining StAX and CUP

Cabezuelo, Antonio Sarasa; Temprado-Battad, Bryan; Martínez-Avilés, Alberto; Sierra, José-Luis; Fernández‐Valmayor, Alfredo

doi:10.1109/dexa.2009.60

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Modular Specifications of XML Processing Tasks with Attribute Grammars Defined on Multiple Syntactic Views

Temprado-Battad

Cabezuelo

Sierra

2010

2010 Workshops on Database and Expert Systems Applications

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This paper describes an approach to the modular specification of XML processing tasks. The approach is language-oriented: it considers the programs that process a type of XML documents to be processors (e.g., compilers or interpreters) for the markup language used in these documents. In addition, it encourages the declarative specification of these processors through attribute grammars. In doing so, the syntax of the language must be characterized with a context-free grammar, which is equivalent to the schema of the markup language. In turn, the processing of documents must be characterized with semantic attributes and semantic equations added to this context-free grammar. To manage the difficulty of specifying complex tasks, it is possible to split the specification into several attribute grammars, each dealing with a specific aspect of the processing. In addition, each of these attribute grammars can have a different underlying context-free grammar, which conforms to a syntactic view specially tailored for the processing aspect addressed. To make these specifications executable, this paper proposes a processing engine based on GLR parsing and on a demand-driven attribute evaluation method. Also, examples are given of using this approach with a simple XML-based language for coding arithmetic formulas.

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Modular Specifications of XML Processing Tasks with Attribute Grammars Defined on Multiple Syntactic Views

Temprado-Battad

Cabezuelo

Sierra

2010

2010 Workshops on Database and Expert Systems Applications

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Development of e-Learning Solutions: Different Approaches, a Common Mission

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García-Peñalvo

González

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IEEE R. Iberoamericana Tecnologias Aprendizaje

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Building XML-driven application generators with compiler construction tools

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This paper describes how to use conventional compiler construction tools, and parser generators in particular, to build XML driven application generators. In our approach, the document interface is provided by a standard stream-oriented XML processing framework (e.g., SAX or StAX). This framework is used to program a generic, customizable XML scanner that transforms documents into streams of suitable tokens (opening and closing tags, character data, etc.). The next step is to characterize the syntactic structure of these streams in terms of generation-specific context-free grammars. By adding suitable semantic attributes and semantic actions to these grammars, developers obtain generation-oriented translation schemes: high-level specifications of the generation tasks. These specifications are then turned into working application generators by using standard parser generation technology. We illustrate the approach with <e-Subway>, an XML-driven generator of shortest-route search applications in subway networks.

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Building an Enhanced Syntax-Directed Processing Environment for XML Documents by Combining StAX and CUP

Cited by 3 publications

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Modular Specifications of XML Processing Tasks with Attribute Grammars Defined on Multiple Syntactic Views

Modular Specifications of XML Processing Tasks with Attribute Grammars Defined on Multiple Syntactic Views

Development of e-Learning Solutions: Different Approaches, a Common Mission

Building XML-driven application generators with compiler construction tools

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