[antlr-interest] translations wanted?

[Terence Parr]

On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 10:51 AM, John D. Mitchell wrote:

>>>>>> "Terence" == Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> writes:
> [...]
>
>> Howdy folks...looks like I have at least one student interested in
>> building a grammar and/or translator for their masters project class 
>> (one
>> semester, 4 credits).  So the question is, what grammars do we really
>> need right now?  Is there a translator we need?  Perhaps a JavaCC-> 
>> ANTLR
>> translator <snicker>
>
> How about a RelaxNG (compact) compiler which generated ANTLR code to 
> parse,
> validate, and AST-ize the defined language?  Hmm... Is that hard 
> enough?

Ah...finally somebody recognized that DTDs for XML should look like a 
real grammar not the filth in DTDs or that stupid "use XML to describe 
the DTD" thing whatever it's called.  Cool.

That sounds like a groovy idea.  Thanks, John.

> At a slightly more abstract level, I'd like to see support for lexing,
> parsing, and translating fixed-length formats.

Useful for sure.  Can you give me an example app?

Ter
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