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Agile Parsing to Transform Web Applications

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Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering (GTTSE 2005)

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Syntactic analysis lies at the heart of many transformation tools. Grammars are used to provide a structure to guide the application of transformations. Agile parsing is a technique in which grammars are adapted on a transformation by transformation basis to simplify transformation tasks. This paper gives an overview of agile parsing techniques, and how they may be applied to Web Applications. We give examples from several transformations that have been used in the Web application domain.

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    Thomas Dean

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    Mykyta Synytskyy

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  1. Fachbereich 4, Institut für Informatik, B127, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstraße 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Ralf Lämmel

  2. Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal

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    Joost Visser

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Dean, T., Synytskyy, M. (2006). Agile Parsing to Transform Web Applications. In: Lämmel, R., Saraiva, J., Visser, J. (eds) Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering. GTTSE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11877028_11

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