This is very helpful information, and I'm glad I signed onto this list. I will try this, if my current attempt fails. So far, it looks like XML Schema Object Model (XSOM), put out by the Sun Microsystems developer crowd, will work for me:
http://developers.sun.com/dev/coolstuff/xml/readme.html First, you need to convert your DTD to XML Schema. Then you can parse the XML Schema with the XSOM API. The examples are quite clear. I figure, with the XSOM approach, the code I write is forward compatible, with future XML structure. If this should fail, it's good to know there is a fallback to parsing DTDs. Many thanks for your thoughts!!! _____ Scott Andrews Principle Software Engineer Concurrent Technologies Corporation (814) 269 6580 (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) (814) 632 9559 (Tuesday, Thursday) (814) 880 8522 (Cell) -----Original Message----- From: Henry Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do I parse a DTD in Java? Absolutely! I'm using it already. It might be a little tricky, I had to do a lot of trial and error to figure out the pieces I wanted (there's not much in the way of Docs about using Xerces in this way), but the point is it *can* be done. I was able to pull out <!ELEMENT > declarations and their attributes, etc. and write output files based on this data. I forget the name, but there's a good sample program in the Xerces-J directory to get you started. Depending on what you want to do, it might be more than you need. All solutions offered up so far have been very good ones -- I just noticed that this one wasn't offered. At 8:12 PM +0100 1/13/04, Paul Libbrecht wrote: >On 13-Jan-04, at 19:00 Uhr, Henry Miller wrote: >>Preparsing grammars deals explicitly with reading a DTD (or XSD) >>and storing the data in a grammar which you can walk through to get >>the DTD pieces you're interested. >> >>http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-grammars.html#faq-3 > >Last time I read this, it wasn't working for DTDs (i.e. you could >pre-parser them but you couldn't inspect them). Can DTDs be >inspected by Xerces now ? > >Thanks. > >Paul > -- --Henry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
