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Unparsing of Diagrams with DiaGen

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Graph Transformation (ICGT 2002)

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When diagram editors are used as components of larger software systems they are not only used as an input facility for diagrams, but also for visualizing results or other data structures which are externally represented. Examples are UML tools which are used for re-engineering. This paper presents a generic unparsing approach which allows for creating diagrams from XML-coded external data structures. This approach has been integrated into the diagram editor generator DiaGen. It is based on an XSLT specification of the rule-based unparsing process which creates a hypergraph model of the resulting diagram.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Programmiersprachen, Universität Erlangen, Martensstr. 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Mark Minas & Frank Strüber

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Corso Italia 40, 56125, Pisa, Italy

    Andrea Corradini

  2. Computer Science Department, Technical University of Berlin, Franklinstraße 28/29, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Hartmut Ehrig

  3. Computer Science Department, University of Bremen, Bibliothekstraße 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Hans -Jörg Kreowski

  4. Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, CA Leiden, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

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Minas, M., Strüber, F. (2002). Unparsing of Diagrams with DiaGen. In: Corradini, A., Ehrig, H., Kreowski, H.J., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Graph Transformation. ICGT 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2505. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45832-8_23

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