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Hi everybody,
I'm trying to write a program to reverse engeeniering OO language sources
and generate UML diagrams. I've almost finished the back-end (that generates
dia uml diagrams) but I've few dubts about how to build the front-end that
is the most important part of the program. I want to extract structural
informations (class structure, associations...) from the AST, and saving
informations about the code itself to be able to reflect the changes back.


I'm basically looking for a set of parser front-ends for different languages
(right now I'm interested in pyhton and c++) that share that same AST.
So far I've found only cppp (ftp://wilma.cs.brown.edu/pub/cppp.tar.Z) that is a
c++ front-end. Of course I don't want to re-write an ad-hoc parser for every
language, but using the existing ones.


Does anybody have any suggestions ?
Is there any 'standard' AST api (such as dom for xml) ?
Does nobody know any (GPL) python/c++ front-end that I can use ?
Do you think it is the right way to proceed ?


thanks,
pietro
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