How to convert JavaScript code to a xml representation of the ast?

I am building an XML serializer of JavaScript Abstract Syntax Trees with ANTLR. The generator is quite complete but I would like to know if there are any conventions about some issues such as:

• how handle angle brackets in strings or regular expressions?
• how to translate if-then-else (e.g. will the else node be inside the if one or not)?

More generally: does such a translator already exist? Is there any existing XSD for this XML-based language?

EDIT

I am currently interested in free开发者_如何转开发 tools only.

Parsers which perform code generation from XML and generate XML from code are readily available:

• Custom PMD Rules - O'Reilly Media

• estools/esvalid: confirm that a SpiderMonkey format AST represents an ECMAScript program

• jantimon/handlebars-to-ecmascript: Convert handlebars to an ecmascript AST

• estools/estemplate: Proper (AST-based) JavaScript code templating with source maps support.

• estools/esrecurse: AST recursive visitor

• estools/estraverse: ECMAScript JS AST traversal functions

• estools/escope: Escope: ECMAScript scope analyzer

• estools/esquery: ECMAScript AST query library.

You ask, "does such a translator exist?". If the question is, "does this exist in ANTLR?" then I suspect you'll find the answer at the ANTLR.org site. My company has exactly such a translator with all the issues resolved; if you'd like to see an output sample as an answer here I'll produce one for you specifically for JavaScript.

Here's a link to an XML output for Java: What would an AST (abstract syntax tree) for an object-oriented programming language look like?

References

• Parsers, Part IV: A Java Cross-Reference Tool (pdf)

• o:XML Development Tool Chain

• Command line rendering | Highcharts

• Parser API - Mozilla | MDN