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Re: Clapham - a railroad diagram generator

by Tom Copeland :: Rate this Message:

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On May 11, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Julian Hyde wrote:

> I'm a long time JavaCC user and I'm very happy with it - but my  
> product manager wants me to generate railroad diagrams of our SQL  
> grammar for our documentation.
>
> I couldn't find a tool to do that, so I've started an open source  
> project called Clapham. I just released the first version, and I  
> thought that the JavaCC community would be interested.
>
> Clapham doesn't read JavaCC source files (yet) but it's easy to take  
> the BNF generated by jjdoc and generate diagrams from that. Please  
> give it a try, and let me know what you think. I'm also looking for  
> contributors.
>
> More details:
> • My blog post: http://julianhyde.blogspot.com/2009/05/clapham-railroad-diagram-generator.html
> • Home page: http://clapham.hydromatic.net/
> • SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/clapham

Julian, that is very cool!  If folks want to see a larger example,  
check out what it generated for the Java grammar:

http://infoether.com/~tom/clapham_java/

Pretty awesome stuff!

Yours,

Tom


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