Anonymizing DTD or XML Schema

[Michael Wein]

Hello,

does anyone know of a tool that automatically anonymizes a DTD or XML
Schema? By anonymizing I mean renaming all elements/type definitions but
still containing the structure, esp. the references/dependencies.

Background: we have problems handling an XML Schema with our XML editor and
the vendor requires the schema for debugging purposes. But unfortunately
the XML Schema comes from a different company and contains confident
information so that disclosing it to the vendor of the XML editor would
probably violate an NDA. If you wonder that I mixed up DTD and XML Schema:
basically that doesn't matter to us since the XML Schema was generated from
a DTD. Anonymizing either of those would help us.
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Michael Wein

[Philippe Poulard]

Michael Wein wrote:

Hello,

does anyone know of a tool that automatically anonymizes a DTD or XML
Schema? By anonymizing I mean renaming all elements/type definitions but
still containing the structure, esp. the references/dependencies.

Background: we have problems handling an XML Schema with our XML editor and
the vendor requires the schema for debugging purposes. But unfortunately
the XML Schema comes from a different company and contains confident
information so that disclosing it to the vendor of the XML editor would
probably violate an NDA. If you wonder that I mixed up DTD and XML Schema:
basically that doesn't matter to us since the XML Schema was generated from
a DTD. Anonymizing either of those would help us.

hi,

as XML Schema is XML, you may use XSLT to rename each declaration; you
may use generate-id() to compute the new name of the elements and the
attributes
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Cordialement,

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[Michael Wein]

On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:29:05 +0100, Philippe Poulard wrote:

as XML Schema is XML, you may use XSLT to rename each declaration; you
may use generate-id() to compute the new name of the elements and the
attributes

Already thought of this. I am just not sure how to handle all the
references/dependencies.

Of course I would prefer something ready made, too ;-)
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Michael Wein