We have analyzed a substantial number of language documentation artifacts, including language standards, language specifications, language reference manuals, as well as internal documents of standardization bodies. We have reverse-engineered their intended internal structure, and compared the results. The Language Document Format (LDF), was developed to specifically support the documentation domain. We have also integrated LDF into an engineering discipline for language documents including tool support, for example, for rendering language documents, extracting grammars and samples, and migrating existing documents into LDF. The definition of LDF, tool support for LDF, and LDF applications are freely available through SourceForge.

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Springer
M.G.J. van den Brand (Mark) , B. Malloy , S. Staab
International Conference on Software Language Engineering
Software Analysis and Transformation

Zaytsev, V., & Lämmel, R. (2010). A Unified Format for Language Documents. In M. van den Brand, B. Malloy, & S. Staab (Eds.), Post-proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2010). Springer.