1.  Chris Anderson Engineer Microsoft Corporation  Giovanni Della-Libera Development Lead Microsoft Corporation TL31

2. “Quadrant” The modeling tool “M” The modeling language Repository The store for models

3. “MSchema” Schematizing data A family of languages for manipulating data “MGrammar” Text to data “MGraph” Representing data

4. DSL "M""M" Domain-specific grammars Abstract data model Domain-specific data models language PointLanguage { syntax Main = h:Integer "," v:Integer => Point { X { h }, Y { v }}; } type Point { X : Integer; Y : Integer; } Point { X { 100 }, Y { 200 } } Point.m Domain Model Point.m Domain Model DSL Y DomainY.mg Domain Grammar DomainY.mg Domain Grammar DSL X DomainX.m Domain Model DomainX.m Domain Model DomainY.m Domain Model DomainY.m Domain Model DomainX.mg Domain Grammar DomainX.mg Domain Grammar PointLanguage.mg Domain Grammar PointLanguage.mg Domain Grammar MSchema MGrammar MGraph

5. Contact: giodl – 425-555-1212

6. InputGrammarOutput Errors Transform TextMGraph

8. Contact: giodl – 425-555-1212 Step 1: Tokenize

9. token Alias = ("A".."Z" | "a".."z")+; Tokens define the “words” of your language Contact: giodl – 425-555-1212

10. Step 2: Parse Contact: giodl – 425-555-1212

11. syntax ContactEntry = "Contact" ":" alias:Alias "-" phone:Phone => Contact { Alias { alias }, Phone { phone } }; Syntax defines the “sentences” of your language Contact: giodl – 425-555-1212

12. Remember interleave? Contact: giodl – 425-555-1212 interleave Ignorable = " " | "\n" | "\r“;

13. Shape the data… Contact: giodl – 425-555-1212 syntax ContactEntry = "Contact" ":" alias:Alias "-" phone:Phone => Contact { Alias { alias }, Phone { phone } };

14. Contact: giodl – 425-555-1212 syntax ContactEntry = "Contact" ":" alias:Alias "-" phone:Phone => Contact { Alias { alias }, Phone { phone } }; Contact AliasPhone giodl425-555-1212

15. Contact AliasPhone giodl425-555-1212 syntax ContactEntry = "Contact" ":" alias:Alias "-" phone:Phone => Contact { Alias { alias }, Phone { phone } };

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