Re: Re: [RFC 00/29] RFC: Generate object-model code based on relax-ng files

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:37:23AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Wed, 2020-04-22 at 09:48 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > I wonder if we can refactor that tool to extract the code for parsing into > > a module, so that we can more reasily re-use it for both the API docs and > > for a new XML generator > > Or we could replace that C parsing code with something based on > libclang. I think that's a double edged sword. While it gives you the full coverage of the C language, you then have to deal with the full range of the C language. I think the simplified parser we have for the docs build will be easier to work with by being more constrained in what it tries to support.

> Either way, if this ever becomes usable I think it should not live > in the libvirt repository but be a standalone tool instead, as I can > see many projects potentially benefiting from it. Yes, but we can worry about that at a later date IMHO.

> Which begs the question: are we absolutely certain something like > this doesn't exist already? We should make sure that's really the > case before we invest time on it... I've not found anything equivalent to Golang's XML parser for C