Re: bison-2.4.1 with more graph output

[Akim Demaille]

Le 17 mars 2010 à 20:34, Joel E. Denny a écrit :

>> Yes, but I'm no big fan of having several outputs here.  Joel might have 
>> another opinion.  Maybe gnulib could support a factored means to support 
>> both outputs.  But the xsl-based approach you recently proposed seems a 
>> more acceptable path.
> 
> We plan for the XML output to be a stable user-visible interface to the 
> parser tables, so XSLT should be easier to maintain than internal Bison 
> code to support VCG.
> 
> More generally, I see no reason to reject any decent XSLT contribution 
> that might be useful to Bison users.  Maybe there should be some sort of 
> data/xslt/contrib for XSLT that is not considered part of the core Bison 
> feature set.  For any contributed XSLT, there must be test cases to make 
> sure we don't break it as the XML output evolves.  Maybe 
> tests/xslt-contrib.at.

That sounds perfect.