Re: [docbook-apps] Tool to query dtd/schema for valid element children|attributes[SOLVED]

[David Nebauer <davidnebauer@switch.com.au>]

Michael Smith wrote:

>Along with the ones already mentioned, there's one that Scott
>Hudson posted a note about to the list a few months back -
>
>  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200506/msg00210.html
>
>It's a Java app -
>
>  http://woodstox.codehaus.org/DTDFlatten
>
>It seems to work well ...
>

It surely does.  Out of the three tools you pointed out, this one runs 
the fastest.  Blisteringly so, in fact.  As with everything, however, 
there is a trade-off -- the minimum possible output size is double that 
of flatten running in default mode.

>And it can handle entities that have system IDs with remote URIs.
>

Not on my system, it couldn't:
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$ java -jar dtd-flatten.jar 
http://oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd
java.io.FileNotFoundException: No such file or directory
   at gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl.open (FileChannelImpl.java)
   at gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl.FileChannelImpl 
(FileChannelImpl.java:106)
   at java.io.FileInputStream.FileInputStream (FileInputStream.java:108)
   at java.io.FileInputStream.FileInputStream (FileInputStream.java:83)
   at java.io.FileReader.FileReader (FileReader.java:89)
   at com.ctc.wstx.tools.DTDFlatten.main (DTDFlatten.java:140)
   at java.lang.VirtualMachine.invokeMain (VirtualMachine.java)
   at java.lang.VirtualMachine.main (VirtualMachine.java:108)
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Public IDs are misinterpreted as command-line options:

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$ java -jar dtd-flatten.jar "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
Unrecognized option '-//OASIS//DTD'.
Usage: class com.ctc.wstx.tools.DTDFlatten[flags] [DTD file]
 flags:
   --output-comments (default)
   --strip-comments
   --output-conditional-sections
   --strip-conditional-sections (default)
   --output-pe-decls
   --strip-pe-decls (default)
   --output-whitespace:<mode> (mode: all/compact/minimum; default 'compact'
   --help [displays full help]
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Thanks for all your help, Michael.  The combination of xmlcatalog (using 
the public ID!) and either of these tools will enable me to solve the 
coding problem I have.

Regards,
David.