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copied!<p>As pap already mentioned... this is quite a complex thing to do, when it's just to learn XML, still if you'd want to continue, there are a few things you should get / create in order to get the thing done...</p> <ul> <li><p>the first thing you should get / create is a java parser, which can "break-up" java code into operators, parameters and such which you can use to build your xml representation</p></li> <li><p>The second thing to achieve is to create a schema ( xsd ) which fully describes your xml based language ( more or less like BNF, but then in XML ) </p></li> </ul> <p>a piece of transformed "Hello World" code could for instance look like this (although I'm more of a c# guy)</p> <pre><code><invokeMethod fullname="Console.WriteLine, mscorlib"> <param type="System.String">Hello World!</param> </invokeMethod> </code></pre> <p>So there needs to be a schema definition for "invokeMember" which requires a fullname attribute and 0 or more param elements... and so on.</p> <p>If you got that covered, you'll need to create a sort of "code-generator" ( known as a lexer if I'm not mistaken ) which will convert the parsed java code to XML conforming the schema.</p> <p>And then you're only halfway... </p> <p>You could use a xml stylesheet to ultimately transform the XML to another language-type ( which also is quite a difficult task to achieve )</p> <p>Still... these are just pointers to get you started... and if you do choose to undertake this project... I wish you good luck :-) </p>

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