[antlr-interest] XML transformation support for 3.0

[Terence Parr]

On Aug 7, 2004, at 7:03 AM, Oliver Zeigermann wrote:

> Folks!
>
> ANTLR 3.0 seems to actually make it and I am looking forward to it. It
> was once discussed to add XML transformation support to ANTLR. If
> Terence and the rest of the ANTLR community still are interested I can
> help with that.
>
> I have added XML transformation support to 2.x and it turned out to be 
> a
> very poweful, yet a bit less convenient alternative to XSLT.
>
> Now, as ANTLR 3.0 might allow interpreted *and* compiled parsing and -
> if things go well ;) - will allow for a standard syntax for AST
> construction etc. it will suit nearly perfect for XML transformations.
> The interpreted thing with only standard syntax for AST creation for
> simply ad hoc transformations and the compiled version for complex and
> performance critical stuff.

Hi,

I hope to make ANTLR's trees be XML compatible or compliant or 
convertible etc... (there is an unfortunately method naming/return type 
issue). XML is just a tree so I expect to support XML transformations 
in that sense.  You'll never see anything like xpath or whatever come 
from me, however....What kind of transformations were you thinking 
about?

For sure, we should have a standard XML parser and generator, though, 
right?

Ter
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