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+The Textual Modeling Framework is an umbrella project for textual modeling frameworks at Eclipse.
+It contains two concrete projects:
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+ <li><b>Xtext (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext">http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext</a>)</b></li>
+ <li><b>(currently inactive) TCS (<a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/TCS">http://wiki.eclipse.org/TCS</a>)</b></li>
+</ul>
+Please refer to the individual project web sites for details.
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