Re: ANN: Ada source code decorator

Stephen Leake escribió:
"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Stephen Leake wrote:
I don't see how that is remotely possible. The whole point of ASIS is
to access the knowledge the compiler has about the source. Thus the
compiler has to provide functions to access that knowledge.
The point of ASIS is to provide a standard way to access information
about the source that the compiler has saved. The format of this
information is not specified. I suspect Wright is hoping an Ada-0X
version of ASIS will specify the format, using XML.

Ok, now I see; that does make sense.
...
I have not used XML processors, so I can't comment on whether they are
"less clunky" than using the ASIS API. But I can see that having a
standard XML representation of the Ada source would make it easier for
people who are familiar with XML to build useful tools. And since
there are certainly more people familiar with XML than with ASIS, that
would be a good thing for Ada.

That's my case. I would love an ASIS export utility that provides the full ASIS-accesible information about a single compilation unit as a single XML document.

--
Manuel Collado
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