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

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net>]

* Jack Schwartz wrote:
> However, it would be better if I used a tool to get this information if 
> one existed.  (In my simple case, at least it would help with skipping 
> comments in the DTD file, etc.)  Does such a tool or API exist in 
> libxml2, lxml or somewhere else?

Well, you could use http://search.cpan.org/dist/SGML-DTDParse/ to turn a
DTD into an XML format that's easy to process, or you could use a tool
like trang http://code.google.com/p/jing-trang/ to turn the DTD into RNG
which is kinda easier to process than having to write a DTD parser that
can cope with entity madness. For that last part I use xmllint to sim-
plify http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2005Feb/0029.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011Jan/0029.html offers
something similar to what you are looking for, though it's for RELAX NG
and so it solves a more complex problem than you are trying to solve.
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