Parsing a DTD for information

Indrajit Chaudhuri IndrajitC at catsglobal.co.in
Tue Dec 14 06:50:42 GMT 1999


Hi Abhishek,

If you are using Java, then you can try using the XMLDTDScanner class 
provided in the Xerces 3.0.0EA3 Java Parser avaliable from IBM
Alphaworks.

In case you are using C++, I think there is no C++ parser which provides
the facility to retrieve element information from a DTD (if anyone knows
about it please let me know!). In this case, one approach may be to use
some converter to convert the DTD to DDML/XSchema and retrieve the
schema information from the DDML/XSchema file.

Thanks,
Indrajit


Abhishek Srivastava wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there an XML parser that will allow me to parse just a DTD.
> 
> Suppose the following is my DTD
> <!ELEMENT (name+,lastname+)>
> 
> My application needs to know that it can have a list of names and a
> list of lastnames.
> 
> Most parsers give me the data inside the elements/attributes . ..
> however, do not
> allow to access the grammar associated with the elements/attributes in
> the DTD.
> 
> regards,
> Abhishek.
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