Re: [xml-dev] Auto-generate a DTD from multiple XML documents?

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

> Several of us involved with Distributed Proofreaders and Project
> Gutenberg are analyzing a number of TEI documents representing PG
> etexts.

If you know that the documents are all valid to the full TEI DTD then
you are in a much strnger position than just trying to infer a DTD from
a set of instances. You can, essentially, just use a simple xpath
expression (or just perl, probably) to get a list of element and
attribute names used in your instances then take the TEI DTD and just
delete any references to elements not used in your instances. You may
have a few small manual changes to make the resulting grammar
deterministic, but basically you are done.

Alternatively perhaps you could just get the TEI Pizza chef to bake you a
small DTD
http://www.tei-c.org/pizza.html

David


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