wml parser

[g6b0r]

hilo,

absolutely newby question: if I want to create some tool (using python or java) to edit/configure campaigns, where can I find wml parser code that I could reuse?

thanks!

g6b0r

[Elvish_Hunter]

Moved to Coder's Corner.
In the data/tools/wesnoth directory you can find two Python modules: wmlparser (and its Python 3 counterpart: wmlparser3) and wmlparser2.
The difference between the two modules is that wmlparser(3) is completely written in Python, and has some limitations (by reading it, I found a comment inside of it stating that it doesn't perform recursive macro substitution); wmlparser2, instead, relies on Wesnoth's executable, which is called with the --preprocessor option and spawned as a subprocess.
As you can easily understand, the main problem when writing a WML parser is handling repeated macro substitution, which can be a real pain.