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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Any Ada source XML serialization standard?
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"Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> writes:

> On 2012-04-06 13:54, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
>
>> I read about a so called cppML, whose purpose was precisely that, but
>> for C++. As there use to be a cppML, I naively searched for an adaML or
>> some sort of that, but failed. By the way, this cppML seems dead, or am
>> I wrong?
>
> I wonder if one could hijack ASIS for this purpose. That is, define an
> XML representation of Ada source using XML elements with names that
> correspond to ASIS elements. Such an approach might allow a certain
> amount of "mindshare" between the two systems. A person familiar with
> ASIS could easily understand the XML representation or visa-versa.

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