Re: DTD to element graph?

["Michael D. Crawford" <cr...@goingware.com>]

While Xerces may not give you the tools you need to operate on a DTD as
an object in itself, the PyXML python library does.  

You can interface it to C and C++ so if you want to work with a DTD from
a C++ program you could bolt a python interpreter to your application (I
think you link to it as a shared library or something), then create an
instance of a subclass of the dtd parser thingy they have, parse the
DTD, and methods in your subclass get called with different components
of the DTD as parameters.

I guess it's kind of like SAX for reading DTD's.  This isn't the main
thing PyXML is advertised for but there's a module in there that does it
and it's mighty handy.

You can get PyXML from:

http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/

and the module that does this is 

xml/parsers/xmlproc/dtdparser.py

in the PyXML library.

Mike
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