Programmatic Alteration of Internal DTD Subset

[Chris W]

Hi All,

I have hundreds of small XML files of the form (extrabeous stuff removed):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE page PUBLIC "-//LOCAL//DTD PAGE 0.1//EN" "page.dtd">
<page>
<graphic boardno="entityname1" />
<graphic boardno="entityname2" />
</page>

that I would like to process into this form:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE page [
<!ENTITY entityname1 SYSTEM "entityname1.gif" NDATA gif>
<!ENTITY entityname2 SYSTEM "entityname2.gif" NDATA gif>
<!NOTATION gif SYSTEM "image/gif">
]>
<page>
<graphic boardno="entityname1" />
<graphic boardno="entityname2" />
</page>

That is, I'd like to load each file, find all the boardno attributes,
insert an ENTITY declaration, insert a NOTATION declaration, and write
the result to a file. The XML markup is unchanged, just the internal
DTD is altered. Finding the boardno attributes in a DOM is trivial, but
manipulating the internal DTD subset and getting it to file is eluding me.

Apart from doing the DTD manipulation as a text file, any suggested tool
sets/approaches. Perl, Python, Java, whatever.

Regards,
Chris W

[Mukul Gandhi]

I explored the similar issue some time back.

You could look at my findings at,

http://gandhimukul.tripod.com/xml/xml.html

Please see, item no, 6.

Regards,
Mukul

On Oct 10, 10:56*am, Chris W <[e-mail]:

Hi All,

I have hundreds of small XML files of the form (extrabeous stuff removed):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE page PUBLIC "-//LOCAL//DTD PAGE 0.1//EN" "page.dtd">
<page>
* <graphic boardno="entityname1" />
* <graphic boardno="entityname2" />
</page>

that I would like to process into this form:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE page [
* * * * <!ENTITY *entityname1 SYSTEM "entityname1.gif" NDATA gif>
* * * * <!ENTITY *entityname2 SYSTEM "entityname2.gif" NDATA gif>
* * * * <!NOTATION gif SYSTEM "image/gif">
]>
<page>
* <graphic boardno="entityname1" />
* <graphic boardno="entityname2" />
</page>

That is, I'd like to load each file, find all the boardno attributes,
insert an ENTITY declaration, insert a NOTATION declaration, and write
the result to a file. *The XML markup is unchanged, just the internal
DTD is altered. *Finding the boardno attributes in a DOM is trivial, but
manipulating the internal DTD subset and getting it to file is eluding me..

Apart from doing the DTD manipulation as a text file, any suggested tool
sets/approaches. *Perl, Python, Java, whatever.

Regards,
Chris W

[Chris W]

Mukul Gandhi wrote:

I explored the similar issue some time back.

You could look at my findings at,

http://gandhimukul.tripod.com/xml/xml.html

Please see, item no, 6.

Regards,
Mukul

Thank you sir. Most helpful.

Chris W