Re: [xsl] Parsing XPath in XSLT?

["Christophe Marchand cmarchand@xxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've used REx parser (exactly the URL mentioned by John) during XML 
Prague to convert XQuery code into syntax hilighted code in slides, for 
a XQuery course.

That's quite easy, and I've been able to embed many different language's 
syntax hilighters in a simple XSLT 3 program. It was just a 2 hours work 
to make it run correctly.

The most difficult part is to choose which parameters you have to use to 
generate your parser.

Best,
Christophe

Le 26/03/2020 C  12:40, John Lumley john@xxxxxxxxxxxx a C)critB :
> On 25/03/2020 17:31, Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I am currently having to interpret XPath or (more likely) an XPath
>> subset into an abstract representation that can be rewritten into
>> various forms. Naturally I would like to do this out of a parse tree
>> or the functional equivalent, represented in some sort of XML, since
>> serializing that back out is easy enough. It is producing that tree
>> that is a problem. I need a parser for XPath or if not for all of
>> XPath, then at least for my subset -- which includes namespaces. So
>> even if partial the model must expose names and namespaces to the
>> extent that a path rewriter can (for example) map into a new set of
>> namespace prefixes --
>>
>> Any thoughts? Open source projects I should take a look at? Have the
>> community-standards initiatives captured any good work in this area?
>
> The simplest is to use Gunther Rademacher's REx parser 
> (https://www.bottlecaps.de/rex/) to generate an XSLT parser for 
> XPath3.1. To do this download the sample grammar for XPath31 (left 
> hand column on the page) then generate the parser using XSLT as the 
> target, backtracking on, and parse tree checked on Generate Code. 
> Hitting 'Generate' should produce a download of a file xpath-31.xslt, 
> which contains internally a function p:parse-XPath($expression as 
> xs:string) as element() [xmlns:p="xpath-31"].
>
> Evaluating this function produces the parse tree (assuming of course 
> the syntax of the expression is correct), as an XML tree where the 
> element names correspond to the recursive Grammar productions, with 
> leaves of literals, names etc. and tokens. So for example, 1 to 5 
> parses as the deep tree:
>
>     B <XPath>
>     B B B B B B B B B B B  <Expr>
>     B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  <ExprSingle>..........
>     B B B  B B B  B B B  B B B  B B B  B B B  B B B  <RangeExpr> .......
>     <IntegerLiteral>1</IntegerLiteral> .........
>     <TOKEN>to</TOKEN>.........
>     <IntegerLiteral>5</IntegerLiteral>
>     </>
>
> Namespace bearing terms such as charlie, bar:fred generate 
> <QName>charlie</> <QName>bar:fred</> leaves, so all the information is 
> still preserved.
>
> The tree is easily manipulated with XSLT, and the inversion to valid 
> XPath expression strings can be processed pretty simply, by something 
> along the lines of:
>
> B B B  <xsl:mode name="parse2text" on-no-match="shallow-skip"/>
> B B B  <xsl:template match="TOKEN[. = ('to')]" mode="parse2text"> {.} 
> </xsl:template>
> B B B  <xsl:template match="TOKEN[. = (',')]" mode="parse2text">{.} 
> </xsl:template>
> B B B  <xsl:template match="TOKEN|Literal|QName" 
> mode="parse2text">{.}</xsl:template>
>
> Using this it is pretty simple to write a small stylesheet that processes:
>
>     <samples xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>     xmlns:bar="BARBER" xmlns:charlie="CHARLIE" xmlns:delta="DELTA" >
>     B B B  <remap from="xsl" to="charlie"/>
>     B B B  <remap from="bar" to="delta"/>
>     B B B  <remap from="delta" to="bar"/>
>     B B B  <xpath>charlie, xsl:foo, $bar, xsl, $bar:fred</xpath>
>     B B B  <xpath>map{'a': 1 to 5, $b : delta:X}</xpath>
>     </samples>
>
> and produces a result:
>
>     <samples xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>     B B B B B B B B  xmlns:bar="BARBER"
>     B B B B B B B B  xmlns:charlie="CHARLIE"
>     B B B B B B B B  xmlns:delta="DELTA">
>     B B  <remap from="xsl" to="charlie"/>
>     B B  <remap from="bar" to="delta"/>
>     B B  <remap from="delta" to="bar"/>
>     B B  <xpath>
>     B B B B B  <source>charlie, xsl:foo, $bar, xsl, $bar:fred</source>
>     B B B B B  <textFromParse>charlie, xsl:foo, $bar, xsl,
>     $bar:fred</textFromParse>
>     B B B B B  <modified>charlie, charlie:foo, $bar, xsl,
>     $delta:fred</modified>
>     B B  </xpath>
>     B B  <xpath>
>     B B B B B  <source>map{'a': 1 to 5, $b : delta:X}</source>
>     B B B B B  <textFromParse>map{'a': 1 to 5, $b: delta:X}</textFromParse>
>     B B B B B  <modified>map{'a': 1 to 5, $b: bar:X}</modified>
>     B B  </xpath>
>     </samples>
>
> (I've sent you the appropriate files privately, so you can run them 
> yourself and look at the parse trees - works fine in Oxygen)
>
> -- 
> *John Lumley* MA PhD CEng FIEE
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