xml-dev - Re: DTD Processor?

[Robin LaFontaine <robin@monsell.co.uk>]

David,

I have been using Anderson's implementation in Common Lisp for this - 
but I guess if you are not a Lisp programmer this may not help! But 
it does give a modifiable data structure for the DTD which allows 
program manipulation.

I understand that  DOM3 will address this and give a procedural 
interface into the DTD. It would be useful as you say.

Robin

At 4:33 pm -0500 29/3/00, David Wang wrote:
>I realize that this may sound ancient, crufty, and crazy, but bear with me
>briefly while I explore this thought... :-)
>
>I wanted to know if there is a parser and otherwise exposed "object model" for
>DTDs so that DTDs can be programmatically traversed and examined.
>
>I realize that such facilities must exist in the bowels of any XML parser
>since it needs to do this sort of thing to validate any XML instance document,
>but I'm not aware if these facilities are exposed outside the validating
>parser.
>
>The reason I'm thinking about this is:
>Just as SAX and DOM allows me to programmatically fiddle around and examine
>the elements and attributes of an XML instance document (such as nodes, etc),
>I can technically apply the same facilities on an XML-Schema document since
>it's valid XML.  Thus, I wonder if there exists such facilities for DTDs...
>
>Thanks,
>/David
>
>
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