A command line portable utility that creates a tagged XML file from a source code snippet for highlighting purposes. This is a SBVEH (Stupid But Very Expandable Highlighter), characterized by an inefficient but very customizable structure. Features/shortcomings:

• The highlight rules are chosen by input file extension
• A remarkable freedom on highlighter customization: add new languages, new regions, etc... Peek the XML config file (automatically created if missing) you should then figure out how to obtain advanced highlighting features
• Supports multi syntax highlight in the same file
• Edit yourself a proper CSS file to style the source code as you prefer, starting from the template produced with option -css
• Specify "html" extension in output file name to obtain a ready to use html file, otherwise use xml extension
• When using regular expressions with lookbehind (ex in html lang definition) the parsing takes a long loooong time...

Usage:

C:> java -jar src2xml.jar  [paths] [options]

Command line arguments can be:

• path Add a file/folder in the input files list
• -r Recursively process input subfolders
• -out=path Add a file/folder in the output files list
• -cfg=config-file Explicitly indicate a configuration file
• -css=css-file Generate (if not existing) a dummy stylesheet file (use as a template); in case of html output also links to this stylesheet
• -ext=file-ext Select output mode by file extension

Examples:

C:> java -jar src2xml.jar "C:\my code\code.cpp" -out="C:\some web\code.html"

C:> java -jar src2xml.jar code1.cpp -out=code1.html code2.cpp -out=code2.html

C:> java -jar "Snippets\" -out="Dest\"

C:> java -jar "Snippets\*.?pp" -out="Dest\" -r -ext=xml

I developed this in java using NetBeans, as exercise; the code snippets in this website are obtained using this utility. Here is the original (note the highlighting...) batch file that performs my snippets conversion: Download this utility (including sources): src2xml.7z (60KB)