Re: [xml-dev] Use DTDs!

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>]

On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 00:18 +0000, Gareth Oakes wrote:
>  is there a
> good visual tool** out there to work with DTDs? One that is both
> read/write and will understand and retain the parameter entities?

I wrote something a little over a year ago to visualize DTD structure
using the JavaScript d3 toolkit, but it doesn't do editing. I suppose
in principle it could, but right now comments would be lost.

Actually I think it doesn't cope correctly with external entities in
all caes (if they override parameter entity definitions) but it could
probably be fixed. The DTD parser was a quick hack rather than a
product. But again, it could be fixed to use a proper XML parser fairly
easily. I was trying to explore different visualizations rather than
making a single robust one.

Liam


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