<p><a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Xpand">Xpand</a> is a statically-typed template language featuring</p>
<lu>
	<li>polymorphic template invocation,</li>
	<li>aspect oriented programming,</li>
	<li>functional extensions, </li>
	<li>a flexible type system abstraction,</li>
	<li>model transformation, </li>
	<li>model validation and much more</li>
</lu>
<p>It includes an <b>editor</b> which provides features like</p> 
<lu>
	<li>syntax coloring, </li>
	<li>error highlighting, </li>
	<li>navigation, </li>
	<li>refactoring and </li>
	<licode completion.</li>
</lu>
<p>Xpand was originally developed as part of <a href="http://www.openarchitectureware.org">openArchitectureWare</a> project before it became a component under eclipse.</p>
<p>The M2T version is implemented in <a href="http://www.xtext.org">TMF's Xtext</a>.</p>