Generating Visual Editors for Formally Specified Languages

We discuss the generation of structured visual editors for formally speciied languages. We use the term structured visual editor to refer to a structure{ oriented editor which provides language speciic behavior and supports the interactive construction of programs. This paper describes how such a visual editor can be generated from a formal language speciication including the language's visual syntax. A simple visual expression editor is presented in order to demonstrate our approach. Our prototype implementation is discussed at the end of the paper.

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