Re: ANN: Ada source code decorator

[Manuel Collado <m.collado@fi.upm.es>]

Stephen Leake escribi�:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org> writes:
> 
>> Stephen Leake wrote:
>>> I don't see how that is remotely possible. The whole point of ASIS is
>>> to access the knowledge the compiler has about the source. Thus the
>>> compiler has to provide functions to access that knowledge.
>> The point of ASIS is to provide a standard way to access information
>> about the source that the compiler has saved. The format of this
>> information is not specified. I suspect Wright is hoping an Ada-0X
>> version of ASIS will specify the format, using XML.
> 
> Ok, now I see; that does make sense.
> ...
> I have not used XML processors, so I can't comment on whether they are
> "less clunky" than using the ASIS API. But I can see that having a
> standard XML representation of the Ada source would make it easier for
> people who are familiar with XML to build useful tools. And since
> there are certainly more people familiar with XML than with ASIS, that
> would be a good thing for Ada.

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.

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Manuel Collado