Convert DTD?

[LPent]

Is there any way one can convert the xhtml dtd's into a filetype that can be read by a database (like access)? Or is hand-conversion the only way?

 

[vacunita]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. A DTD is just plain text.

What exactly do you want to do?



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[LPent]

I want to convert the xhtml-dtd of W3C into a relational database (xhtml elements and attributes).

 

[vacunita]

Interesting, in that case no. You{ll have to insert them manually, as even though it is text, there is no way for the DB to know what you want to store as fields and values.



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[ChrisHunt]

So you want to read a document like

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd

, and somehow store its content in a database?

It should be possible to write a program to parse a DTD file, it's a machine-readable format after all, but it's not a simple job. If you were to find an XML Schema representation of the document instead it would be easy(ish) to read the file - but still non-trivial to do anything with it.

What are you intending to achieve with this DTD-into-database procedure?

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Since it has been established that there's no HTML or CSS issues here, I think now would be a good time to take this question to a more appropriate forum (i.e. the forum for whatever language will be used to read / parse the DTD).

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