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

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:51:10PM +0800, Shi Lei wrote: > As you suggested, parsing C-structs plus some magic comments may be a good starting point. > But parsing C is much more difficult than parsing xml or json. I think this job should base on > some present tools or other basis. We can first refer to Clang or other light compiler front-end. > Maybe we can utilize some output of the middle stage of these compilers. FWIW, we already have a tool in libvirt that parsers C header files. The scripts/apibuild.py file extracts info about our enums, structs, APIs and uses it to build the public API documentation. 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