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Publication summary
Author(s): Tom Kramer, K.C. Morris and David Sauder
Publication date: August 1992
Citation: Tom Kramer, K.C. Morris and David Sauder: "A Structural EXPRESS Editor," NISTIR 4903, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1992.
Availability:
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- A paper copy of this document is available by contacting Kristy Thompson [web,email]
Abstract:
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EXPRESS is the official information modeling language of the next
generation of product information standards, commonly referred to as
STEP. This paper presents a Structural EXPRESS Editor, which has two
parts: an Interactive Editor, and a Transition Module. The
Interactive Editor was built using a tool called the Data Probe Editor
Builder and is an interactive, friendly editor with which a user
defines the structure of an EXPRESS schema. The output of the
Interactive Editor is a STEP exchange file that is translated into
EXPRESS by the Translation Module, a software system written in
LISP.
The paper describes the Data Probe Editor Builder and both parts of
the Structural EXPRESS Editor. The editor is assessed and EXPRESS
editor, generally, are discussed. Alternative representations of
EXPRESS are presented. A few issues in information modelling
highlighted in the course of building the editor are discussed.
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