How can I know during parsing which rule is currently matched? I'd like to automatically build an XML (or other objectal hierarchy) representing the parsed input, using rule names, without the need of using grammar actions or trees.
Is this possible?
Many thanks, Yaakov
AFAIK, that is not possible. But why don't you use ANTLR's built in tree construction? In the options{ } part of your grammar, add output=AST; and use rewrite rules where applicable. See: http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/~admin/2008/11/30/Example+tree+rewriting+with+patterns