In the upcoming version of Spoofax (the new-term branch), JSGLR can directly create abstract syntax trees, avoiding the (significant) overhead of creating parse trees with character branches and then imploding them.

To make use of this in WebDSL, two things must change:

• WebDSL still uses one of the parse-pt strategies to first create a parse tree and then implode it. It should use a parse alternative instead to directly get the AST.

• WebDSL also uses asfix-anno-location to annotate the parse tree with location information. Instead, it should use the origin-line and origin-column strategies to add these annotations directly to the AST.

Perhaps parse-pt + implode-asfix can be efficiently supported in the future with some runtime tricks, but asfix-anno-location will likely remain as is.

Submitted by Lennart Kats on 1 February 2011 at 18:33

At this point calling implode-asfix in 0.6.1 uses the Stratego implementation of the imploder, which doesn’t support origin tracking or position information. Another reason not to use it anymore ;) Just do something like topdown(!<id>{At(filename, <origin-line>, <origin-column>)}) to get the annotations.

Note that WebDSL seems to be incompatible with Spoofax 0.6.1 at this point because of this issue.

fixed in the editor however since , are not available in the compiler it is hard refactor it there