However, there is more activity in print. Having discovered a chinese websearch for magazine research (http://it.alljournals.cn/) I was interested in a little statistics and tracked the number of published articles on “model driven” (模型驱动).

Another keyword that yields a lot of result is MDA.  One of our main points of focus in European business, the use of domain specific languages is not yet a major subject in Chinese magazines. Searches result 2-3 hits in 2008 and 2009. It will be interesting to watch the future trends. The chinese already have produced one of the nicer UML tools based on Eclipse (www.trufun.net).

So the example grammar of new Xtext Projects in Chinese could look like this:

Of course, content assist and outline are fully supported:

All you have to do is to set Eclipse to use UTF-8 for the workspace through Window->Preferences->General->Workspace.

And, with a little overloading of the ID terminal, like this:

terminal ID :
‘^’?(‘a’..’z'|’A’..’Z'|’_'|’一’..’é¾¥’) (‘a’..’z'|’A’..’Z'|’_'|’0′..’9′|’一’..’é¾¥’)* ;

You can even use chinese characters as IDs: