Re: xml as intermediate representation

TOUATI Sid <touati@prism.uvsq.fr>
30 Sep 2005 02:05:18 -0400

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From: TOUATI Sid <touati@prism.uvsq.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 30 Sep 2005 02:05:18 -0400
Organization: Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
References: 05-09-078 05-09-110 05-09-112
Keywords: tools
Posted-Date: 30 Sep 2005 02:05:18 EDT

The advantage of using XML as an intermediate representation is :


- it allows to pass complex information between compiler passes in
textual form -> easier to debug/explore compared to complex data
structure in memory. Also, this would help decomposing a big compilation
project into smaller independent sub-projects.
- in case of compiler design changes, an XML representation is "easier"
to redesign compared to the case other data structure.
- XML is not as complex commonly thought.
- XML is a standard, so many (free) tools treat XML files : parsers, etc.


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