[GCC-XML] RE: GCC-XML extension

[Daniel J. Blezek, Ph.D.]

Brad and Mike,

> > 2. Creating a XSLT routine to extract the field members and thier types
> from
> > XML file.
> > 3. Generating a better XML-Output routine that uses the full type info
> to
> > extract all the fields.

  Having done a whole ton of XML/XSL work recently for the Insight
project, I'd be glad to hop in on this project.  I think what Brad's done
has been great, and I'd like to contribute to helping get the XML to be
sensable and useful for a variety of purposes.  The first thing I can see
is to get a DTD going to write (and validate) XML from gcc.  This would
require a bit of thought as to how the data would be used and referenced
by the different applications.

> > 5. Extending this to be able to xml-dump *any* compiler data structure.

  On this vein, how about re-writing the error/warning stuff from GCC to
produce a formal XML document.  This would be a great boon to those of us
who hate parsing build logs to produce dashboards.  The information could
be nicely formatted, and easy to parse.  I suspect that more and more tool
venders will be moving towards using XML as a nice output format for
diagnostic information.

Take care,
-dan

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Daniel Blezek, Ph.D.
blezek at crd.ge.com
Visual Information Program
Electronic Systems Lab
GE Corporate Research & Development