Re: DTD editor

yes - I agree.  There isn't a DTD editor out yet that is able to do what I'm able to do by just looking at the DTD and following the real simple rules.

And XMetal appears, from what I've seen so far, to be a very stable tool for creating documents - I've used it and it's caught document errors that other tools haven't.

 ---- you wrote: 
> 
> The best tool I have found for creating DTDs are an ASCII
> editor and a parser.  
> 
> Near and Far from Microstar is a great tool for viewing a DTD and a
> displaying the hierarchical model.
> 
> Since we are talking about Editors there are several XML
> editors available on the market with a long history of
> editing structured information.
> 
> SoftQuad will be releasing XMetaL very soon.  Included
> in editor is a DTD validator called XMmkrules.  Those
> individuals who have previous used Author/Editor will
> find XMmkrules very familiar.  Another nice feature
> of XMetaL is that it uses CSS stylesheets internally
> and has a very nice CSS stylesheet editor.
> 
> Arbortext Document Architect and Adept Editor has a
> DTD development tool.
> 
> Betty
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> On Thu, 20 May 1999, David RR Webber wrote:
> 
> > Message text written by INTERNET:hoon@xxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > Xeena is not an editor for DTD itself.  It takes a DTD as an input to edit
> > valid
> > XML documents
> > derived from the input DTD.   In a nutshell, Xeena ensures that the XML
> > document
> > is valid
> > according to the DTD.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > John H. Shin
> > hoon@xxxxxxxxxx
> > <<<<<<<<<<
> > 
> > OK, 
> > 
> > The download page at the IBM site does not make this clear at all, perhaps
> > we can get that changed at some point?
> > 
> > However - the concept of creating intelligent tools that can help guide
> > the user is a useful one, and that I think is the point of interest.
> > 
> > Obviously given the above restrictions - you will need to use Xeena in
> > tandem with a DTD editor that lets you create the DTD in the first place.
> > 
> > Ultimately we want a cyclic capability in either a suite or a single
> > product,
> > that can allow you to: 
> > 
> > A) Brain-storm wellformed XML, and convert that to a DTD.
> > 
> > B) Work with a DTD to enhance it and add links to standards in
> >       XML Repositories.
> > 
> > C) Apply DTD to create document instances in XML (this appears to
> >      be the role of Xeena).
> > 
> > Obviously if this is a cycle - you can jump into it at any point and morph
> > back and forth between the modes as you need to.
> > 
> > There's probably two more modes - Forms (XSL/HTML) and Tables (SQL),
> > that you may also want to add into the mix, but for now A, B + C would be
> > real good as Stage #1!
> > 
> > Thanks, DW.
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