The tool cloc has an option to create xml output.
This output can transformed via a short XSLT script into the sloccount format.
Therefore, no changes are required within the sloccount source.
Please, reject this change request!

Would you please upload the xslt script here?

@andrey: I've attached an example for you.

It does not work for me, maybe I use wrong options? What I do is:

• 1: run cloc:
  cloc.pl --by-file --exclude-dir=.svn,build --xml -out=build/cloc.xml mysourcedir

• 2: run xsltproc using your example XML file:
  xsltproc sloccount.xsl build/cloc.xml

• Result:
  compilation error: file /home/zoufala/Downloads/sloccount.xsl line 1 element stylesheet
  xsl:version: only 1.0 features are supported
  xmlXPathCompOpEval: function replace not found
  XPath error : Unregistered function
  xmlXPathCompiledEval: 2 objects left on the stack.
  runtime error: file /home/zoufala/Downloads/sloccount.xsl line 5 element variable
  Failed to evaluate the expression of variable 'file_path'.
  This report has been generated by cloc 1.56.
  For more details see: http://cloc.sourceforge.net

Is there an obvious mistake in my usage?

@Andreas it is due to 1.0 limitation of xsltproc. This worked for me:

--- sloccount.shouldbe
+++ sloccount.xsl     
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:de="." xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:de="." xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="text" version="4.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>

 <xsl:template match="file">
-  <xsl:variable name="file_path" select="translate(@name,'\\','/')"/>
+  <xsl:variable name="file_path" select="replace(@name,'\\','/')"/>
   <xsl:variable name="file_path_part1" select="substring-after($file_path,'/')"/>
   <xsl:variable name="module" select="substring-before($file_path_part1,'/')"/>
   <xsl:value-of select="@code"/>

Thanks Andrey, I will give it a try the next days!

Yes indeed, it works very well! Thx

It doesn't appear this works for the current version. I'm using Cloc 1.58 with plugin version 1.8.

I used the same method as the individuals above, and the output is not properly parsed by the sloccount plugin.

Nevermind, I wasn't following the directions properly. Once I used xsltproc this worked as expected. Sorry!

Closing old non-closed but resolved tasks. Cloc howto added to wiki.