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XML [message #1816891] Mon, 11 November 2019 09:15 Go to next message
Clever Alves is currently offline Clever AlvesFriend
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Hi there!

I've been reading about XML and have the following doubt: Can XML be also used to represent methods/operations (behaviours) somehow, rather than just data/structure?

Thank you for your attention.

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Clever.

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Re: XML [message #1816897 is a reply to message #1816891] Mon, 11 November 2019 11:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ed Merks is currently offline Ed MerksFriend
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Well, given that methods/operations can be (and typical are) expressed as a syntax trees (regardless of the language involved), and given that a syntax tree is "just a data structure", yes, XML Is able to express any arbitrary data structure including one that represents a syntax tree that could be interpreted as a method/operation by some compiler/generator/transformer/interpreter.

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XML [message #1816961 is a reply to message #1816897] Wed, 13 November 2019 03:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Clever Alves is currently offline Clever AlvesFriend
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Thank you for your reply, Ed!

Would you know any example of such an implementation (a URL)?

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Clever.

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Re: XML [message #1816975 is a reply to message #1816961] Wed, 13 November 2019 08:59 Go to previous message
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No, but if you export an Ecore model with EOperations to an XML Schema (via the GenModel for that Ecore model) those operations are represented in the *.xsd that's produced, so that's sort of an example, but it doesn't include syntax for the operation body. If the EOperation does have a body annotation, that's just serialized as text content. E.g., https://git.eclipse.org/c/emf/org.eclipse.emf.git/tree/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.ecore/model/Ecore.xsd#n238

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