This is the Syntacs Translation Toolkit (STT), yet another member of the Yet Another family of compiler generator tools. The STT was borne out of a general desire to understand lexical and syntactic analysis; perhaps it may even be of utility to others... It does:

The STT has some sporty features: One feature is that an STT grammar file does not contain semantic actions (no code). Rather, a separate component is implemented by the grammar author which is responsible for responding to lexical and syntactic events to do the actual abstract syntax tree construction. Therefore, the STT has a minimalist philosophy of only trying to automate that which is easily automatable.

The STT is too early to recommend for production work but it's quite cool, has a nice modular design, and has good support visualization of internal structures; it's immediately useful for educational use and for algorithm experimentation.

Homepage

http://www.inxar.org/syntacs

License

GPL

Download

The highest-numbered release whose final digit is an even-number is the current recommended distribution.

http://www.inxar.org/download

Installation

Unpack the archive; make sure the syntacs.jar, jenesis.jar, and xerces.jar are included in the classpath. You can substitute Sun's XML-TR2, Crimson, or JAXP parser in lieu of Xerces if you like.

Documentation

Contact

It's nice to have feedback on your work: if you have an idea, suggestion, criticism, bug report, or bigfix, please send me an email: pcj@inxar.org.

Enjoy,
  - Paul