Graphical Syntax View for Xtext

I demoed it so often that I almost forgot blogging about it: In Xtext 2.0 you can now visualize the syntax of your DSLs grammar in a live railroad diagram view. The view supports navigation between the editor and the view and you can export your diagrams to a file. We even have a special representation for unordered groups. Watch this screencast to see it in action:



The syntax graph is implemented in plain Draw2d using a custom layout algorithm. It is technically not related to the generic graphical view I presented in my previous blogpost.