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

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