Dominik Jetzen

The itemis blog

Dominik Jetzen works as a software engineer at itemis in Frankfurt am Main. He works on projects using Xtext and is interested in model-driven software development.

Xtext, Software Development

Pro Tip: Disabling the outline in Xtext

There are several explanations on how to modify the outline view in Xtext for your language, for example in the official documentation. But what do you do, if you want to disable the outline?

by Dominik Jetzen

2 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext

The new Formatter API for Xtext 2.8 (Part 2)

In the first part of our Formatter series I explained how the new formatter API works and how you can use it for the formatting of a Table.

by Dominik Jetzen

4 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext

The new Formatter API for Xtext 2.8 (Part 1)

With Xtext 2.8 a new Formatter API was introduced, which is way easier to use and more flexible than the old one. Instead of using the DSL's Grammar Access it is now possible to work directly on the elements inside your document. This article shows how the ...

by Dominik Jetzen

6 min. reading time

Pro Tip: Disabling the outline in Xtext

The new Formatter API for Xtext 2.8 (Part 2)

The new Formatter API for Xtext 2.8 (Part 1)