Specification and dialogue control of visual interaction through visual rewriting systems
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Petri Net Theory and the Modeling of Systems
Petri Net Theory and the Modeling of Systems
Unparsing of Diagrams with DiaGen
ICGT '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Graph Transformation
The Use of the GXL Approach for Supporting Visual Language Specification and Interchanging
HCC '02 Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02)
GXL: Toward a Standard Exchange Format
WCRE '00 Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'00)
Building environments for end-user development and tailoring
HCC '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments
Spatial graph grammars for web information transformation
HCC '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments
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In the data exchange mechanism of current visual language specification systems, different languages are used as structure data exchange format, layout data exchange format and internal data format. These mechanisms are complex ones, but in some contexts they can be simplified. Analyzing the properties of Visual Rewriting Systems, a specific type of visual language specification system, we detect a great similarity between its formalism and the Scalable Vector Graphics standard (SVG). Based on such similarity, we propose the Visual Rewriting System based on SVG (VRSS). In VRSS, the SVG language is used as the internal data format and as a data exchange format that describes both the structure and the layout of visual sentences. Such data exchange mechanism is simpler than the current exchange mechanisms, besides it offers a greater XML interoperability.