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copied!<p>What didn't you understand about <a href="http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">DMS</a>? </p> <p>It exists.</p> <p>It has compiler accurate <a href="http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/FrontEnds" rel="nofollow noreferrer">parsers/frontends for C, C++, Java, C#, COBOL (and many other languages)</a>.</p> <p>It automatically builds full Abstract Syntax Trees for whatever it parses. Each AST node is stamped with file/line/column for the token that represents that start of that node, and the final column can be computed by a DMS API call.</p> <p>It has a built-in option to generate XML from the ASTs, complete with node type, source position (as above), and any associated literal value. The command line call is:</p> <pre><code> run DMSDomainParser ++XML <path_to_your_file> </code></pre> <p>You can <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6376662/how-a-ast-for-an-object-oriented-programming-language-would-look-like/6378997#6378997"> see what such an XML result looks like for Java</a>.</p> <p>You probably don't really want what you are wishing for. A 1000 C program may have 100K lines of #include file stuff. A line produces between 5-10 nodes. The DMS XML output is succint and each node only takes a line, so you are looking at ~~ 1 million lines of XML, of 60 characters each --> 60 million characters. That's a big file, and you probably don't want to process it with an XML-based tool.</p> <p>DMS itself provides a vast amount of infrastructure for manipulating the ASTs it builds: traversing, pattern matching (against patterns coded essentially in source form), source-to-source transforms, control flow, data flow, points-to analysis, global call graphs. You'll find it amazingly hard to replicate all this machinery, and you're likely to need it to do anything interesting. </p> <p>Moral: much better to use something like DMS to manipulate the AST directly, than to fight with XML.</p> <p>Full disclosure: I'm the architect behind DMS.</p>

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