This repository implements an Asciidoctor converter to generate a XML file with the syntax nodes of a parsed document.

The converter is available as a Ruby gem, and can be installed with the following command:

$ gem install asciidoctor-xml-ast

The gem includes the executable asciidoctor-xml-ast, which you can use instead of asciidoctor:

$ asciidoctor-xml-ast document.adoc

Alternatively, you can invoke asciidoctor directly, and add the options --require asciidoctor-ast-xml and --backend xml-ast:

$ asciidoctor -r asciidoctor-xml-ast -b xml-ast document.adoc

In the previous examples, the output will be in the document.ast.xml file.

The following document:

= Lorem Ipsum

== Dolor Sit Amet

Cillum dolore eu *fugiat* nulla pariatur

Generates a XML like this:

<document title="Lorem Ipsum" ... >
  <section id="_dolor_sit_amet" title="Dolor Sit Amet">
    <paragraph>Cillum dolore eu <inline-quoted type="strong">fugiat</inline-quoted> nulla pariatur</paragraph>
  </section>
</document>

The <document> element contains a lot of attributes, which have been removed in this example so it is easier to read.

The actual output is not indented. The previous example is formatted with xmllint.