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Subject: Re: ANN: Ada source code decorator
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On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 22:54 -0700, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Manuel Collado wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> And I would like that format to be XMI [1]. What good woul be any XML
> format when there are tools which can read it.

An XML format modeled around Ada information, not XMI, would be
good because XSL transformations can transform them into XMI,
and vice versa.

If ASIS definitions can only refer to ISO standard languages, then this
transformation could use DSSSL, the ISO precursor to XSL.