xml-dev - Re: XML serialization of a XML document.

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>]

Sean,

The original motivation of the model I have defined (which is also
covered by XSet which is even more complete) is to include external
entities declarations and references which seems to be missing from your
DTD...

Eric

Sean McGrath wrote:
> 
> [Eric van der Vlist]
> >Do you have a pointer on SAXShow...
> 
> Here is the SAXShow DTD from the book:
> 
> <!ELEMENT SAXShow (DocumentLocator?,Document)>
> <!ELEMENT Document (PI*,(Element|WS|PI|chars)*)>
> <!ELEMENT Element (Attribute*,(Element|WS|PI|chars)*)>
> <!ATTLIST Element name CDATA #REQUIRED>
> <!ELEMENT Attribute EMPTY>
> <!ATTLIST Attribute
>                   name  CDATA #REQUIRED
>                   type  CDATA #REQUIRED
>                   value CDATA #REQUIRED>
> <!ELEMENT PI EMPTY>
> <!ATTLIST PI
>                   target CDATA #REQUIRED
>                   data CDATA #REQUIRED>
> <!ELEMENT DocumentLocator EMPTY>
> <!ELEMENT WS (#PCDATA)>
> <!ELEMENT chars (#PCDATA)>
> 
> Given this XML document:
>         <names>
>         <name x = "y">
>         Mr. Sean Mc Grath
>         </name>
>         <name>
>         Mr. Stephen Murphy
>         </name>
>         <name>
>         Mr. Sandy Duffy
>         </name>
>         </names>
> 
> The SAXShow utility (built on SAX) does this:
> 
> C>python SAXShow.py test.xml
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE SAXShow SYSTEM "SAXShow.dtd">
> <SAXShow>
> <Document>
> <Element name="names">
> <chars>
> </chars>
> <Element name="name">
> <Attribute name = "x" type = "CDATA" value="y"/>
> <chars>
> </chars>
> <chars>Mr. Sean Mc Grath</chars>
> <chars>
> </chars>
> </Element>
> <chars>
> </chars>
> <Element name="name">
> <chars>
> </chars>
> <chars>Mr. Stephen Murphy</chars>
> <chars>
> </chars>
> </Element>
> <chars>
> </chars>
> <Element name="name">
> <chars>
> </chars>
> <chars>Mr. Sandy Duffy</chars>
> <chars>
> </chars>
> </Element>
> <chars>
> </chars>
> </Element>
> </Document>
> </SAXShow>
> 
> regards,
> 
> http://www.pyxie.org - an Open Source XML Processing library for Python

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