Re: [xml-dev] XML -> SGML serialization. Any ideas ?

[Christophe Marchand <cmarchand@oxiane.com>]

Thanks Tony, for this !

I'm able to produce a XML file, with all exotic-characters escaped, with 
a reference to a DTD, that's perfect.

Now, I have to try to see if it's valid as a SGML file...

Thanks again,
Christophe


Le 13/07/2018 à 12:07, Tony Graham a écrit :
> On 13/07/2018 11:00, Christophe Marchand wrote:
> > I have to give data to a very old application, which can only read SGML.
> >
> > My data structure is really simple (records of filename, title), but 
> I hope that you don't have any empty elements.
>
> > contains characters that are not ASCII. So I have to translate them 
> > to use entities (I think SGML has a set of declared entities for 
> > characters with accents, as é, @agrave;, and so on).
> >
> > I'd like the file could be read by XML parsers too, and I'm looking 
> > for a method to produce an XML that is also SGML. I think to use XSL 
> > with characters map, but how could I define the embeded DTD, with all 
> > entities defined ?
> Use the "XML Entity Definitions for Characters":
> https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/
>
> It also has an XSLT2 stylesheet for mapping from Unicode characters to
> entity references.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tony Graham.