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<p>I'd be surprised if this interface worked well for the libclang backend - I expect its output is something in principle similar to XML DOM tree and you can't capture the tree with a simple array of tags unless you want to give up some information (which I'm afraid will be necessary for e.g. better autocompletion).</p>
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<p>The way of libclang is the same for almost every (library that provides a) compiler front-end. I've never seen one that doesn't represent the parsed code as an abstract syntax tree. If TagManager can't support that properly, then it won't support most languages properly.</p>

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