WPSM Programming Language

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WPSM Programming Language

• A simple language that transform
• simple data structure
• into
• complex xML format

Wai Y. Wong Peter Chen Seema Gupta Miqdad Mohammed
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Background

• Business to Business data transformation
• Extensible Markup Language
• Database schema mapping
• Extensible Stylesheet Language

How does Content Manager handle this?
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Motivation

• Worry free from XML syntax
• Focusing on dealing with the inventory
• A powerful tool to handle a mass data
• An easy tool to learn

How does WPSM fulfill these objectives?
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WPSM Goals

• Ease of use
• Productivity
• Robust
• Portable
• Internet ability

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WPSM Syntax

• WPSM takes in .xf source, .csv or other
  delimited, and outputs .xml
• Source file read as stream of chars by Lexer and
  converted to stream of tokens
• Stream of tokens read by Parser and converted to
  AST (Syntax checks)
• Structure of AST in grammar (i.e root nodes and
  child nodes)
• Token Types Keyword, Variable, Integer, and
  String (i.e. BEGIN, END, PRINT(value), IF,
  WHILE, 1,