IIRC some of the early xerces versions had a DTD -> XML Schema translator which worked pretty well. (i've used it a few years ago when playing about with generating objects from schema using velocity scripting.) if you're interested, i can probably try to dig the code out from CVS...
- robert
On 26 Feb 2004, at 07:08, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
Hi,
I would like to include a DTD -> XML Schema translator into JaxMe. More precisely, I would like to use one. AFAIK such software does not yet
exist within any Apache project. Fix me, if I'm wrong and I'll be happy
to use it.
If there is none, I would propose to include dtd2xs (see http://sepia0.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/dtd2xs.php). This is GPL'd software, but the author would agree to contribute his software to the ASF.
Questions:
- IMO a proper place for such software would be xml-commons or xml-sandbox, or possibly ws-commons. Is there any interest to add the component? I would offer to do the work, with committers karma, if I might get it, or without, provided that someone declares himself responsible to recieve patches.
- The software is currently GPL'd. My understanding is that the author would have to sign
http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt
and fax it to +1-410-803-2258. Is that right?
- As the component mainly consists of a single .java file of about 30K, I would like to avoid going through incubation. Is that possible, if I take just the simple file and ignore the remaining distribution.
Regards,
Jochen
