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+/********************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2021-2023 EclipseSource and others.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+ *
+ * This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+ * Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
+ * Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
+ * with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at
+ * https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+ ********************************************************************************/
+import { injectable } from 'inversify';
+import { Classes, VNode } from 'snabbdom';
+import {RenderingContext, ShapeView, SShapeElement, isBoundsAware, isVisible, SArgumentable, svg } from '~glsp-sprotty';
+
+
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
+const JSX = { createElement: svg };
+
+@injectable()
+export class MultiLineTextNodeView extends ShapeView {
+    render(label: Readonly<MultiLineTextNode>, context: RenderingContext): VNode | undefined {
+        if (!this.isVisible(label, context)) {
+            return undefined;
+        }
+        let nodeWidth=100;
+        const parent=label.parent;
+        if (isBoundsAware(parent)) {
+            nodeWidth=parent.bounds.width;
+        }
+
+        // split text into words and lines...
+        let line='';
+        const lines: string[] = [];
+        const words=splitWords(label.args.text);
+        for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
+            const word = words[i];
+            line+=word+ ' ';
+            if (line.length>(nodeWidth/6)) { // very naive approach ;-) 
+                line=line.substring(0,line.length-word.length-2);
+                lines.push(line);
+                line=word +' ';
+            }
+        }
+        lines.push(line); // last line
+
+        // depending on the attribute 'align' we move the text element into the center
+        let xOffset=5;
+        if (label.args.align==='middle') {
+            xOffset= nodeWidth*0.5;
+        }
+        const vnode = <g class-sprotty-node={label instanceof SNode}>
+            <text class-sprotty-label={true} transform={'translate(' + xOffset + ',0)'}>
+                {lines!.map((_line , _index)  => (
+                   <tspan x="0" dy={_index===0?10:15}>{_line}</tspan>
+                ))}
+            </text>
+        </g>;
+
+        const subType = getSubType(label);
+        if (subType) {
+            setAttr(vnode, 'class', subType);
+        }
+        return vnode;
+    }
+}
+
+function splitWords(text: any): string {
+    return text.split(' ');
+}
+
+export class MultiLineTextNode extends SShapeElement implements SArgumentable {
+	static readonly DEFAULT_FEATURES = [
+		boundsFeature];
+	layout: string;
+	readonly args: Args;
+    text = '';
+	align = '';
+}
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