Re: ANN: Ada source code decorator

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@xxxxxxx> writes:

Simon Wright <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

(* XML - time permitting, using Simon Wright's ASIS based GIs.)

Although that work was useful, a lot more needs to be done on it to
make it anywhere near complete. It would be a lot easier if ASIS
(the standard) was open-source.

The ASIS _standard_ is open-source; it consists of Ada specs giving
the API.

The GNAT implementation is also open-source.

So what is missing?

Something to make it clear what the actual structure is. I found it
very hard indeed to understand what the API was trying to tell me; for
example, a qualified name a.b.c is stored in something like

(a (b (c)))

which you can understand a compiler using, rather than

<name>
<component>a</component>
<component>b</component>
<component>c</component>
</name>

and asis2xml would _definitely_ produce the latter (I forget whether
it actually does at this stage).
.

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