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Ernest G. Allen wrote: > At 13:15 -0800 1/21/06, Daniel Schierbeck wrote: > >> I've been googling around for an XML language that describes source >> code, but all I've found is an old SGML language. It's mostly out of >> curiosity, but I'd like to see if there's a simple language that merely >> marks up variables, constants, functions/methods, numbers, string, etc. >> Something along the line of >> >> <var>foo</var> <op>:=</op> <str>"foo"</str> <op>+</op> <str>"bar"</str> >> >> The most important thing is that it should be possible to embed it in XHTML. >> >> <h:p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:c="urn:code..."> >> In the following example we assign <c:str>"foobar"</c:str> to >> <c:var>baz</c:var>. >> </h:p> >> >> Do any of you know such a language? >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Daniel Schierbeck >> >> > > Daniel, > > Have you considered modifying a pretty-printer program? > > Or how about the lexical analyzer part of a compiler, the > part which emits the data-typed tokens of the input file > that is being scanned? There are lex/flex files available > for most popular programming languages that you could > probably use as a starting point. > > > /s/ Ernest G. Allen Hi Ernest, The method of marking up the source code isn't my problem - I could do it by hand for that matter. What I need is a language that gives simple semantics to source code, like (X)HTML gives simple semantics to rich text. Cheers, Daniel
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