RE: building XML while referring to DTD

[Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@allegis.com>]

There are a couple of DTD parsers out there. Check out
http://www.wutka.com/dtdparser.html and
http://www.rpbourret.com/schemas/index.htm. 

There are also some data-binding tools that can create an object model from
a DTD. Check out http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxb/ and
http://zeus.enhydra.org/index.html. I've heard that Oracle also has
something similar. You can check out their XML SDK
(http://technet.oracle.com/tech/xml/content.html) to see if they have this.
You may also want to look over some of the components IBM has on their
Alphaworks site (http://alphaworks.ibm.com/). I believe they also have
something like this.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendi Sisson [mailto:wsisson@east.fedex.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:50 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: building XML while referring to DTD
> 
> 
> We have an app that is building various XML documents from 
> various DTDs.
> I don't want to have to hard-code a different method for every XML
> document I'm building. Is there a way to "parse" a DTD and then build
> the XML as I iterate over the DTD? Or perhaps a tool or utility that
> makes this easier? Or even some way to check before/during adding an
> element whether it is valid for that DTD? Thanks, Wendi
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