On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Hans Aberg wrote: > On 6 Aug 2007, at 22:53, Satya wrote: > > > Not too long ago (summer 2006 :) we had a long discussion about > > dumping the parser tables so that other programs (I wanted to do a > > visual grammar debugger) can use them. I even put forward a (possibly > > dumb/simplistic) XML representation of the .output file. But there > > wasn't any feedback on that. I am not an expert in XML, but if someone > > proposes a good schema I can add the required code to Bison. > > This is just question of writing a new skeleton file, and the code is > essentially there, though generating in the form C/C++ arrays. But first just > strip all macros except what generates those arrays, then make another output > format, if needed.
Currently, generating the .output is more complicated than just printing out some existing muscles. Glance through print.c to see what I mean.