[antlr-interest] Token type as string

[Miguel Ping]

Hi,

There is a file with the grammar name and .tokens extension
(MyGrammar.tokens) that contains correspondence between numbers and
strings. This file is created by antlr generator. Take a look, it
should suit your needs.

On 5/3/07, Adrian Herscu <bmf1972 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to write an XSL template to transform my AST.
> I tried to serialize the AST as XML and I am getting something like:
>
> <antlr.CommonAST text="compilation-unit" type="4">
>    <antlr.CommonAST text="package" type="15">
>      ...
>    </antlr.CommonAST>
> </antlr.CommonAST>
>
> In order to apply an XSL transformation using matching templates, I am
> transforming the above into:
>
> <compilation-unit>
>    <package>
>      ...
>    </package>
> </compilation-unit>
>
> then I can bind XSL templates such as match="/compilation-unit",
> match="package", etc.
>
> The problem is with AST nodes that have text content which cannot
> function as XML tags - for example:
>
> <CommonAST text="123" type="14" />
>
> In this case <123 /> is an illegal XML tag.
> type="14" means that there is some token assigned the identifier 14.
>
> If there would be some easy way to change the token type identifiers to
> strings or to add a string field associated with the token type then it
> would solve my problem really quick.
>
> Is there such a thing? A better approach?
>
> Adrian.
>
>