[jdt-core-dev] start position in DOM

["Philippe P Mulet" <philippe_mulet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Something annoying me in our current parser implementations is that there
is no consistency in our starting positions amongst our different type of
nodes (compiler ast, dom ast, source elements, jdom).

This comes from the fact there are 2 implementations of
Parser#checkAnnotation which are subtily different. The JavaModel is
considering all comments behind previous element to be part of the next
element (taking into account trailing line comment). I would like to
generalize this behavior to others as well. The DOM only contains the
immediate leading javadoc comment, and we could enclose them all as we do
in the model.

Any comments ? I checked the spec on the DOM AST, and it is only  loosely
spec'ed, so it could be evolved.