%0 Conference Paper %1 Psaila99 %A Psaila, G. %A Crespi-Reghizzi, S. %B Second Workshop on Attribute Grammars and their Applications, WAGA'99 %C Amsterdam, The Netherlands %D 1999 %E Parigot, D. %E Mernik, M. %I INRIA rocquencourt %K imported %P 113--132 %T Adding Semantics to XML %U http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Didier.Parigot/www/fnc2/WAGA99/accept.html %X Starting form the analogy between a document tagged by a mark-up language (XML, SGML) and a source string generated by a BNF grammar, we argue that XML parsers should benefit from the addition of semantic attributes and functions. Currently XML only includes initialized lexical attributes. By our approach a XML parser would be extended into a syntax-directed translator. Deep transformations of a document could be specified, sent over the network, and executed within the XML system. For the specification of the semantic attributes and functions we propose a XML Document Type Definition, that is conceptually similar to the metalanguage of a compiler-compiler. By this approach the additions to the XML standard are kept to a minimum.The differences between attribute grammars and attributed XML specifications are discussed, and the system architecture of a semantic evaluator generator is presented.

@inproceedings{Psaila99, abstract = {Starting form the analogy between a document tagged by a mark-up language (XML, SGML) and a source string generated by a BNF grammar, we argue that XML parsers should benefit from the addition of semantic attributes and functions. Currently XML only includes initialized lexical attributes. By our approach a XML parser would be extended into a syntax-directed translator. Deep transformations of a document could be specified, sent over the network, and executed within the XML system. For the specification of the semantic attributes and functions we propose a XML Document Type Definition, that is conceptually similar to the metalanguage of a compiler-compiler. By this approach the additions to the XML standard are kept to a minimum.The differences between attribute grammars and attributed XML specifications are discussed, and the system architecture of a semantic evaluator generator is presented.}, added-at = {2009-05-10T18:36:57.000+0200}, address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands}, author = {Psaila, G. and Crespi-Reghizzi, S.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/29e7dda3aa808408679bbec3913681126/dparigot}, booktitle = {Second Workshop on Attribute Grammars and their Applications, WAGA'99}, description = {Attribute Grammar}, editor = {Parigot, D. and Mernik, M.}, interhash = {87ed214ef7c0a7e640245504acad06a4}, intrahash = {9e7dda3aa808408679bbec3913681126}, keywords = {imported}, mail = {psaila@morgana.elet.polimi.it}, month = {March}, pages = {113--132}, postscript = {WAGA99/proceedings/psaila/psaila.ps}, ppdf = {WAGA99/proceedings/psaila/psaila.pdf}, publisher = {INRIA rocquencourt}, timestamp = {2009-05-10T18:37:07.000+0200}, title = {Adding {S}emantics to {XML}}, url = {http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Didier.Parigot/www/fnc2/WAGA99/accept.html}, year = 1999 }