Re: [docbook-apps] How to programmatically get a list of elements of DocBook 4 and DocBook 5?

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>]

Hi Bob,

On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:29:17 -0800
"Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:

> Hi Shlomi,
> If you don't mind working in Perl, my LiveDTD Perl program parses a DTD and 
> creates a @ELEMENT array that includes all the active element names.  You 
> could use part of that program to generate your list.  It is available for 
> free from here:
> 
> http://www.sagehill.net/livedtd/
> 

I see. Well, I don't mind working with Perl, as my code there is already in
Perl and Bash, and I've worked with Perl since 1996.

However, I do wish there was an easier way to introspect the DTD than
tweaking the code of a monolithic program, which suffers from many bad
programming habits:

* http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/ (my link)

* http://www.slideshare.net/thaljef/cpan-for-private-code

*
http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/The_Open_Source_Way-How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL.html

BTW, what is the licence of this code? The first paragraph is similar to the
MIT/X11 licence (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License ) but it has some
other paragraphs following it.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Shlomi Fish" <shlomif@shlomifish.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:32 PM
> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Subject: [docbook-apps] How to programmatically get a list of elements of 
> DocBook 4 and DocBook 5?
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > here:
> >
> > https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/vim-docbook-5-support
> >
> > I have a repository where I am trying to get a machine readable list of 
> > DocBook
> > 4 and DocBook 5 elements. What I have done of parsing the DocBook 5's RNG
> > appears to work fine, but I'm having trouble with parsing the DocBook 4 
> > RNGs
> > from
> > http://www.docbook.org/rng/4.5/ and some elements, suck as <ulink /> are
> > missing. Should I just parse and extract <element name=..."> from all the 
> > RNG
> > fragments and then concatenate them and remove duplicates? Or is there a 
> > better
> > way?
> >
> > I tried to find a way to extract this information out of the DocBook 4.x 
> > DTD,
> > but could not find a DTD parser that allowed for introspection.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Shlomi Fish
> >
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