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From: philip <philip-f@web.de>
To: Hendrik Tews <tews@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] xml tree -- variant type tree
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:56:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141160206l.7259l.1l@puck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17412.27387.963123.675231@ithif59.inf.tu-dresden.de> (from tews@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de on Tue Feb 28 16:23:39 2006)


On 02/28/2006 04:23:39 PM, Hendrik Tews wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to read an XML file into an element of some variant
> type, where each constructor corresponds to precisely one type of
> xml nodes. Of course I would need to define the variant type
> beforehand. But how to proceed then?
> 
> The humps give me the impression that the right library to use is
> Gerd Stolpmanns pxp. However, this library will produce an object
> tree, which I could probably convert into a variant type with
> some effort.
> 
> An alternative would be to use XML-Light, which produces string
> labelled trees, and to translate these string trees myself.
> 
> Is there some better solution?
> 
> 
> Background: I would like to manipulate abstract syntax trees of
> C++ programs. I couldn't find a C++ parser in Ocaml, therefore I
> would like to use Elkhound/Elsa
> (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~smcpeak/elkhound/), which can output
> the abstract syntax tree as xml file. Extending Elsa is not an
> option, because for ast manipulations I prefer ocaml pattern
> matching over C++ visitors.
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Hendrik
> 
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Hi Hendrik,

i parsed some with tom, it is very efficient:
http://tom.loria.fr/index.php

-Philip

-- 
And remember, "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is  
simple, neat, and wrong."


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-28 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-28 15:23 Hendrik Tews
2006-02-28 15:43 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Wohlwend
2006-02-28 15:52   ` Alain Frisch
2006-02-28 15:47 ` Richard Jones
2006-02-28 15:57   ` Michael Wohlwend
2006-02-28 16:24     ` Alain Frisch
2006-02-28 18:11       ` Michael Wohlwend
2006-02-28 20:56 ` philip [this message]

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