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Mikko Saesmaa wrote: > Hi all, > > we are fiddling with the idea of implementing a syntax-aware DTD > editor on top of an XML parser, using Java. There must be some > native API methods for, say, Apache Crimson or Apache Xerces that > receive and process an external DTD subset, and report any errors > using SAX Exceptions. Any hints for finding > and using such methods would be appreciated. > > As far as we know, JAXP does not support the validation of DTDs > directly. Our original idea was to wrap the DTD inside the > prolog of a dummy document instance. The problem with this approach > is that this way we would pass the declarations to the parser as an > /internal/ DTD subset, which has different restrictions on the use of > parameter entities than an external subset. > > Thanks, > > Mikko Saesmaa > hi, you might be interrested by a dedicated tool such as Ronald Bourret's DTD parser : http://www.rpbourret.com/dtdparser/index.htm in this page there are also links to other DTD parsers -- Cordialement, /// (. .) --------ooO--(_)--Ooo-------- | Philippe Poulard | ----------------------------- http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/ Have the RefleX !
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