Re: [xml] Tools to look inside a DTD allows?

[stuart yeates <stuart yeates vuw ac nz>]

On 07/02/11 09:32, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> Jack Schwartz schrieb am 03.12.2010 um 16:48 (-0800):
>
> > I'm looking for a documented way to look into a DTD [â], but haven't
> > seen one.
>
> I haven't seen any either. Googling for the following didn't turn up
> anything either:
>
>    programmatic access dtd -html
>
> MSDN said back in 2002:
>
>    Most XML 1.0 processors support DTD validation, but they don't support
>    programmatic access to the information found in the DTD due to the
>    complexity of the syntax.
>
>  From the April 2002 issue of MSDN Magazine
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb986126.aspx
>
> > The closest I've come up with is dumping the DTD with the following
> > python program:

A completely separate approach is used by the TEI community, who use the 
ODD format, which is a literate programming language for schemas which 
has been picked up by at least parts of the w3c (i.e. the 
Internationalization Tag Set work).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODD_%28Text_Encoding_Initiative%29

cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
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