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Pattern-Based Design and Implementation of an XML and RDF Parser and Interpreter: A Case Study

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Software patterns have been widely promoted as a means of conveying practical design knowledge in a reusable fashion. Several approaches for providing better implementation variants of certain patterns have been presented. These approaches promise great advantages for flexibility, traceability, and reusability of pattern implementations. However, there are only a few larger practical case studies of these concepts available. In this paper we will present a case study of a component framework for flexible processing of markup languages in the object-oriented scripting language XOTcl. The language offers high-level means and architectural support for component integration (“component glueing”), introspection, language dynamics, and message interception techniques. These language constructs enable developers to extend the language with pattern implementations, and so to provide language support for certain pattern fragments. As a case study domain we discuss an extensible and flexible framework for XML/RDF parsing and interpretation that was developed and evolved over a period of three years and is now in use in numerous applications.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Vienna University of Economics, Austria

    Gustaf Neumann

  2. Specification of Software Systems, Institute for Computer Science, University of Essen, Germany

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Neumann, G., Zdun, U. (2002). Pattern-Based Design and Implementation of an XML and RDF Parser and Interpreter: A Case Study. In: Magnusson, B. (eds) ECOOP 2002 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47993-7_17

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