Towards a Text Generation Template Language for Modelica

Abstract

The uses, needs, and requirements of a text generation template language for Modelica are discussed. A tem-plate language may allow more concise and readable programming of the generation of textual models, pro-gram code, or documents, from a structured model rep-resentation such as abstract syntax trees (AST). Appli-cations can be found in generating simulation code in other programming languages from models, generation of specialized models for various applications, genera-tion of documentation, web pages, etc. We present sev-eral template language designs and some usage exam-ples, both C code generation and Modelica model gen-eration. Implementation is done in the OpenModelica environment. Two designs are currently operational.