Milestone 1 (due 2008-05-09)
Milestone 2 (due 2008-05-23)
- build process
- error handling in parser and lexer
- support for mixing of imported and generated meta models
- Basic Editor
- parse tree
- parse tree / contains whitespace
- parse tree / reconstruction / bi-directionality
- EMF Resource API adaption
Milestone 3 (due 2008-06-06)
- build process
- error handling in parser and lexer
- language inheritance
- service registry framework
- value converter (i.e. arbitrary Datatypes for lexer rules)
- generator model
- (UI) syntax coloring
- (UI) Preferences
- (UI) Outline
- (UI) Content assist (define interface, integrate Michael)
Milestone 4 (due 2008-06-20)
- use commons logging
- more Junit tests
- build process
- refactor genmodel (remove GenClass and GenPlugin)
- remove singleton services registration
Milestone 5 (due 2008-07-04)
- partial parsing
- tests and UI use resource API
- GrammarAccess contains accessors to parser and lexer rules
- first draft of content assist
- Formatting (partial too)
Milestone 6 (due 2008-07-18)
- syntactic predicates
- semantic predicates
- Parsetree reconstructor (denormalize CompositeNodes)
Features to be implemented
Runtime
- description of lexer rules
- cross-references
- referencing files
- Enum rules
- generated checks based on the grammar
- grammar inheritance (having built-in rules defined in a common super grammar)
- fragments
- migration grammars (i.e. support for automatic migration of old syntaxes, e.g. MWE xml syntax)
Tooling
see Xtext Project Plan/Features/Tooling