YAXX: YAcc eXtension to XML, version 0.12 released

The YAXX tool is an XML extension to YACC (Bison), a well-known compiler-compiler. Given a program and its YACC grammar, YAXX outputs the internal parse tree of the program as an XML document. The generated XML conforms to the DTD that is also generated from the YACC grammar and it can be transformed back to a valid program through a very simple XSLT.

The YAXX project is hosted at Google Code. Example grammars include ANSIC, GCC 3.4.0, Java 1.1, Fortran 77, SQL, Embedded SQL, XML, Ada 95, C#, PHP, Javascript, Telos, NFR, BibTeX, etc. We are also working on the BISON grammar.

Applications

The tool has been applied

To internationalize programs through the XSLT in Making XML documents International
To convert knowledge representations in Telos (see OpenOME) or NFR into goal models or graphviz DOT graphs.
To debug GCC for an efficient collection of the program unit dependence graph in the header restructuring project.
To weave aspect-oriented PHP programs in the PHPAspect project by William Candillon. The project has been chosen by the Google Summer of Code in 2006.

Related work

G. McArthur, J. Mylopoulos, S.K.K. Ng. An Extensible Tool for source Code Representation Using XML, Ninth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'02) October 29 - November 01, 2002 Richmond, Virginia.
B. A. Malloy and J. F. Power. Program Annotation in XML: a Parser-Based Approach, Proceedings of WCRE 2002, Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Richmond, Virginia, USA, pages 190--198, October 28 - November 1, 2002.
JavaML: A Markup Language for Java Source Code
Jezix
Mamas' and Kontogiannis' JavaML

YAXX: YAcc eXtension to XML, version 0.12 released

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