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> From: Jim Mehl [mailto:mehl@i...] > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:47 PM > To: xml-dev > Subject: Re: DTD formal syntax > [...] > However for those of you I have confused let me try again. I want a > program that reads a DTD, say > <!ELEMENT Record (Field1, Field2) > > <!ELEMENT Field1 (#PCDATA) > > <!ELEMENT Field2 (#PCDATA) > > parses it and then puts up a window/form/input screen/whatever > that says what do you want for Field1. You say abc. It says what > do you want for Field2. You say def. The program then produces > <Record> > <Field1>abc</Field1> > <Field2>def</Field2> > </Record> > Except, of course, I want it to deal with most any DTD. Like I said > XMLSpy (and probably others I am unaware of) provides this, > but I want more control over the data entry format. I believe XMLSpy has an API for developing custom forms. Have you investigated that? XMetal has similar support, I believe. I haven't investigated these in any depth myself, but I plan to do so because I have interest in developing custom UIs for editing XML. I'm more interested in XML Schema than DTDs myself, though, because we need the data-typing support and are using XML for data rather than documents, at present.
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