How to convert source code to a xml based representation of the ast?

Question

i wanna get a xml representation of the ast of java and c code. 3 months ago, i asked this question yet but the solutions weren\'t comfortable for me

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Answer 1

srcml supports line number and column number. Here is an example using a java file called input.java (keep in mind srcml supports multiple languages, including C/C++) that contains the following:

public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Prints "Hello, World" to the terminal window.
        System.out.println("Hello, World");
    }
}

Then run srcml with the command to enable keeping track of this extra position information:

srcml input.java --position

It produces the following AST in an XML format with line number and column number embedded:

public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Prints "Hello, World" to the terminal window.
    System.out.println("Hello, World");
    }
}

Reference: Documentation for srcml v0.9.5 (see srcml --help). I also use srcml frequently, including this feature to obtain position information.