Carrot is not the first XSLT-inspired project to provide a shorter syntax than XSLT itself. Syntax shorthands have included Paul Tchistopolskii's XSLScript, Sam Wilmott's RXSLT, and another project called XSLTXT. Although none of these projects provided direct inspiration for Carrot, they all address one of the same desires that Carrot addresses: being able to program in XSLT more concisely
The ANTLR 3 Eclipse Plugin helps you develop ANTLR 3 grammars inside Eclipse. It currently provides a project nature, a label decorator, a builder, and problem markers for ANTLR errors.