XPath (1, 2, 3) is a language for finding nodes in an XML tree, and has a long history in AST search. Maletic et al. (4) is probably the first paper on XPath used on ASTs, using Antlr. It was further researched and is now part of the OSS world (5). In 2014, Parr added to Antlr releases …
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