High Level Overview

• Installation
• Grammar Lexicon
• Grammar Structure
• Parser Rules
• Actions and Attributes
• Lexer Rules
• Wildcard Operator and Nongreedy Subrules
• Parse Tree
• Semantic Predicates
• Options
• Parsing binary streams

Grammar Lexicon

• Identifiers
• Literals
• Actions
• Keywords

Grammar Structure

• Grammar Imports
• Tokens Section

Parser Rules

• Alternative Labels
• Rule Context Objects
• Rule Element Labels
• Rule Elements
• Subrules
• Catching Exceptions
• Rule Attribute Definitions
• Start Rules and EOF
• Left-recursive rules

Actions and Attributes

• Token Attributes
• Parser Rule Attributes
• Dynamically-Scoped Attributes

Lexer Rules

• Lexical Modes
• Lexer Rule Elements
• Recursive Lexer Rules
• Redundant String Literals
• Lexer Rule Actions
• Different Lexer Commands

Wildcard Operator and Nongreedy Subrules

• Nongreedy Lexer Subrules
• Nongreedy Parser Subrules

Parse Tree

• Parse Tree Listeners
• Parse tree patterns
• Pattern labels
• Creating parse trees with the pattern matcher
• Using XPath to identify parse tree node sets
• Combining XPath and tree pattern matching

Semantic Predicates

• Making Predicated Parsing Decisions
• Finding Visible Predicates
• Using Context-Dependent Predicates
• Predicates in Lexer Rules

Using Options

• Grammar Options
• Rule Options
• Rule Element Options
• ANTLR Tool Command Line Options

Parsing Binary Files

• Binary streams
• Custom stream
• Error handling in binary files