Hi All, Hi Terrence, We have meet task, where we may want be able extract from ANY ANTLR grammar
Description of all Rules, Keywords, Lexems, Imaginary Tokens ... and put that info into e.g. XML format. Actually this can be considered as transformation of ANTLR grammar into XML form. I believe will be possible and reverse task ... That XML back into ANTLR .g grammar. ------- We think next way is possible: * you already have PARSER of any ANTLR grammar. * it parses .g grammar and produce AST... * it looks not to be difficult walk by that AST and output XML in this or that form ... * Or may be string templates can be used ... * actually you already produce C, Java, C# outputs for a grammar.g Why not add XML - as a general format? What you think? ---------- Also we have see cTag tools, which can parse many languages, And produce text output even without XML. As you may know this tool targeted as Editor App helper library. But I think, why ANTLR cannot be improved to produce similar output, and kill cTag as a project :-) -------- Another example of special but not wide tool is GCC-XML http://www.gccxml.org/HTML/Index.html IMO, will be great to extend ANTLR in this way. This will open new roads for its usage probably. And this can be for us - users of ANTLR as easy as Option output = XML What you think ? -- Best regards, Ruslan Zasukhin VP Engineering and New Technology Paradigma Software, Inc Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information http://www.paradigmasoft.com [I feel the need: the need for speed] List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to il-antlr-inter...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to il-antlr-interest+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.