[cdt-core-dev] retirement of the non-public DOM

[John Camelon <jcamelon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In my checked-out view I have currently removed all references to 
IParserCallback; however, converting the DOM from an IParserCallback to an 
ISourceElementRequestor is proving to be very painful.  I could probably 
work at it for another week or so before getting everything hooked up 
proper again so that the Outline View, Structure Comparator & our JUnit 
tests run as expected. 

Why is this so complex?  Since IParserCallback's granularity was 
determined by the ANSI C++ grammar (declarations with multiple 
declarators, etc.), and ISourceElementRequestor's granularity is by more 
logical constructs (fields, methods) it is tough to shoe-horn these 
complex AST structures back into primitive lists. 

Since the DOM was originally intended to be for testing the Parser (and 
has had few if any real restrictions placed upon beyond my whims :-) ) I 
plan to disactivate this code and do the following : 
        1.  convert all of our DOMTests & DOMFailedTests into ASTTests 
(since that is their intention) so that our AutomationSuite still passes 
all green
        2.  look into converting CModelBuilder & ComparatorModelBuilder

Concerns or comments? 
Anyone willing to help w/Task 2?  (Hint-hint to the owners of these 
fantastic components)

JohnC