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

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

You might also investigate the XML-related Perl modules at CPAN.  They are 
probably in better shape.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: "Shlomi Fish" <shlomif@shlomifish.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 1:14 AM
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] How to programmatically get a list of elements 
of DocBook 4 and DocBook 5?

> 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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