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#4 RelaxNGParse?
Would it be possible to produce a script producing
similar output as dtdparse, but for Relax NG? There
are editors (namely kate/kwrite) which use output of
dtdparse for XML editing. However, world seems to be
turning from DTDs, so it would be helpful if I can
produce the same output for other definition files.
And both Schema and DTD could be translated into
Relax NG
(http://www.sun.com/software/xml/developers/relaxngconverter/)
so that seems to be the most supported solution.
Matej
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Are you asking for a script that parses RelaxNG data
and creates a "dtd" document that dtdparse does for
SGML/XML DTDs? Or, are you asking that dtdparse has
the ability to generate RelaxNG from a DTD?
If the former, the script would be a different beast
from dtdparse, maybe something called rngparse, and it
may be considered something completely separate from
this project.
If the latter, the XML document created be dtdparse
can be parsed by a script that knows how to convert
the data to relaxng. It appears the Sun link you
provides already performs a similar function so what
is the real need to add it here?
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The former -- just hoped that you could use some Relax NG
parser in Perl (is there something like that) so that it
wouldn't be that much difficult. I know, it was probably
stupid idea.
Matej
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Generating RelaxNG from a DTD should not be too difficult.
The approach would be to write a script that takes the
the XML output of dtdparse and translates into RelaxNG
syntax. Technically, no RelaxNG parsing is needed since
it is only a final output form.
The script can be written in Perl or it could, in theory,
be writting in XSLT.
I've considered moving some of the function in the
dtddiff script into a module so other scripts can access
them. Functions exist to parse dtdparse XML output along
with some utility functions.
In sum, in DTD-to-whatever-format can use the XML output
of dtdparse as the basis of the conversion.