1.0Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschafthttps://www.salzburgresearch.at/en/Birgit Strohmeierhttps://www.salzburgresearch.at/en/author/birgit/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="cU0nbd1D1j"><a href="https://www.salzburgresearch.at/en/publikation/visual-languages-a-matter-of-style/">Visual Languages: A Matter of Style</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.salzburgresearch.at/en/publikation/visual-languages-a-matter-of-style/embed/#?secret=cU0nbd1D1j" width="600" height="338" title="“Visual Languages: A Matter of Style” — Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft" data-secret="cU0nbd1D1j" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.salzburgresearch.at/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> Styling has become a widespread technique with the advent of the Web and of the markup language XML. With XML, application data can be modeled after the application logic regardless of the intended rendering. Rendering of XML documents is specifi,ed using style sheet languages like CSS. Provided the styling language offers the necessary capabilities, style sheets can similarly specify a visual rendering of modeling and programming languages. The approach described in this article considers visual languages that can be defi,ned as a 1-to-1 visualization of (an abstract syntax of) a textual language. Though the approach is obviously limited by the employed style sheet language, its advantages are manifold: (a) visualization is achieved in a systematic manner from a textual counterpart which allows the same paradigms to be used in several languages and ensures a close conceptual relation between textual and visual rendering of a language, (b) visual languages are much easier to develop than in […]