Re: How to get the 1st element in DTDD

[Wayne Steele <xmlmaster@hotmail.com>]

Given an arbitrary DTD, a set of valid XML documents can be constructed for 
each element declared.

Is this a tool to test some other software? If so, have it run for each 
element declared in the DTD. Or have it choose one randomly.

If you control the DTDs, maybe you could add a PI telling you what elements 
are intended for use as DOCTYPEs:
   <?DOCTYPE folio book chapter ?>


-Wayne Steele


>From: Bing.Li@asu.edu
>To: Murali Mani <mani@CS.UCLA.EDU>
>CC: Bing Li <Bing.Li@asu.edu>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: Re: How to get the 1st element in DTDD
>Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:54:52 -0700 (MST)
>
>Dear Mani,
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>But I think the doc should be initialized by an XML, right? Now I haven't 
>an
>XML because I need to use DTD to generate the XML. So I can't get the doc. 
>Do
>you think so?
>
>Thanks,
>Bing
>
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>On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Murali Mani wrote:
>
> >
> > Sorry i did not use the exact names -- i have not used xml parsers from
> > March 2000 -- sorry for the imprecise answers --
> >
> > basically you have to do this --
> >
> > To get to the first element of the DTD -- I think you want to know what 
>is
> > the element specified as the root using the DOCTYPE declaration --
> >
> > do this --
> >
> > Let the Document be doc
> >
> > (doc.getDoctype ()).getName ()
> >
> > Document.getDoctype () returns DocumentType --
> > DocumentType.getName () returns the name of the DOCTYPE declaration as a
> > String
> >
> > regards - murali.
> >
> > Note that in xml4j 1.1.16, if I remember correctly, DTD implements
> > DocumentType, also the method getDoctype is in the Document interface --
> > it is not in DTD.
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 Bing.Li@asu.edu wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Murali,
> > >
> > > I didn't get the method, getDocTypeDeclaration, in the DTD class. I 
>use IBM
> > > XML Parser for Java 1.1.16. What about you?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bing
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> > >
> > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Murali Mani wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I think there is something like getDocTypeDeclaration in the
> > > interface > Document -- please check.. > > cheers - murali. > > On
> > > Fri, 22 Jun 2001 Bing.Li@asu.edu wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > Now I
> > > am using DOM to generate XML files. I need to get the first
> > element of
> > > > > DTD.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am able to use
> > > > >
> > > > > Enumeration en = dtd.getElementDeclarations();
> > > > >
> > > > > to get all the elements in the DTD. But I don't know which one is 
>the first
> > > > > element in the DTD.
> > > > >
> > > > > I appreciate any help from you!
> > > > >
> > > > > Li Bing
> > > > >
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