[Laszlo-dev] Anyone know about XML DTD's?

[David Temkin]

It would be incredibly useful to generate a DTD that includes user- 
defined classes for a given app on the fly.

This is really a question for laszlo-user.

On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Henry Minsky wrote:

> We're in a position now to generate an XML DTD somewhat more easily  
> than
> we used to be, because of recent changes to the compiler.  The  
> compiler has
> a good in-core representation of the entire class hierarchy, and  
> some simple but
> effective rules about tag containment (which classes of tags can be
> children of which other tags).
>
> Does anyone here know enough about DTD's and real world editor tools
> to know what
> would be the most useful and compact format to generate a DTD in? The
> one we used to generate was overly huge I think, and since we have a
> better class-oriented representation of the containment rules now, I
> am wondering if there is a small and simple DTD that
> we can generate that would of most use to people who actually use
> them. I personally
> just use emacs NXML mode for editing, so I don't have any first-hand
> knowledge of
> what would be useful to people who actually rely on other
> XML-DTD-aware editors.  If anyone has any examples of good DTD formats
> for a similar XML-oriented programming language, I'd be interested in
> seeing them.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com