A compiler to transfer controlled vocabularies and ontologies represented in an object-oriented programming language into text mark-up languages

While I was investigating methods to construct `controlled vocabularies´ and `ontologies´, I created a set of `ontological design patterns´. These engineering design patterns and terminologies specific to some protein families were represented within the object-oriented programming language CLOS (Common Lisp Object System). Within bioinformatics, `ontologies´ are represented on the World Wide Web (WWW) in terminology files that are tagged and marked up by the syntax and keywords of HTML or XML. Therefore, I specified, designed and partially implemented a compiler to translate specified `controlled vocabularies´ and `ontologies´ represented in CLOS and structured by `ontological design patterns´ into the language called `Simple Hypertext Ontology Extension´ (SHOE). First results show that a `one-step-look-ahead´ parser can automatically print the original CLOS version of the `ontologies´ into a file reorganised according to the SHOE syntax