[xml] AW: Changing xmlwriter DTD writing part

["Mickautsch, Alfred" <alfred mickautsch schuler-ag com>]

Hallo Lucas,

it seems to me, your mail didn't make it to the list...

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Lucas Brasilino [mailto:brasilino recife pe gov br]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. März 2004 21:13
> An: Mickautsch, Alfred
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Betreff: Changing xmlwriter DTD writing part
>
>
> Hi Alfred, and all :)
>
> > >    Can you share your thoughts about this change ?? :))
>
> > So I would like to have a possibility to write the start of the
> > entity with xmlTextWriterStartDTDEntity or some new function,
> > then write the content with xmlTextWriterWriteString and end it
> > with an according xmlTextWriterEndDTDEntity function. The problem
> > lies in the fact, that the structures of internal and external
> > entities differ a lot and I do not have the slightest idea how
> > to make it possible in a simple way, to write both of them using
> > the same start and end function.
>       I've been looking around xmlWriter's DTD part and it looks
> a little obscure :) can you provide me a sample code? My tentatives
> wasn't so successful.
>       But let's go through some ideas: DTD internal declarations
> could be stored in a xmlLink list which points to xmlChar buffers.
> Each buffer could be an element, attribute list or entities (internal
> and external). So, should be provided some functions like:
>
> xmlTextWriterAddDTDElement(xmlTextWriterPtr, xmlChar 
> *element, xmlChar 
> *contentmodel);
> xmlTextWriterAddDTDAttr(xmlTextWriterPtr, xmlChar *element, xmlChar 
> *attribute, xmlChar *decl);
> xmlTextWriterAddDTDIntEntity(xmlTextWriterPtr, xmlChar 
> *entity, xmlChar 
> *content);
> xmlTextWriterAddDTDExtEntity(xmlTextWriterPtr, xmlChar 
> *entity, xmlChar 
> *uri);
>
> And when calling xmlTextWriterEndDTD(), all declaration buffers should
> be serialized. Tell me fellings :)

Well, the currently existing functions are supposed to work somewhat
like that, except they are writing directly to the stream.

> > Since I did some work to make it possible to write DTD's without
> > calling xmlTextWriterStartDTD first, I thought, this would be a
> > good time to make some improvements too.
>       These changes was applied? If not, can you provide me a patch?

I am working on bug fixes in the DTD part for some weekends now.
If you could wait until monday, maybe I can cleanup the code an make
a patch. I hope there will be an example for using it too.

> bests regards
>
> -- 
>
> []'s
> Lucas Brasilino
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