XML DTD analysis, diffing ...

[olive]

Hi,

I have a bunch of similar DTDs written by different coders.

I would like to normalize, sort elements and attributes by name and
compare those files.

Do you know any XML DTD parser/normalizer written in Python ?

If not, how would you perform that task in Python language ?

Please,

Olive.

[kyosohma@gmail.com]

Re: XML DTD analysis, diffing ...

On Apr 3, 7:38 am, "olive" <ocolli...@gmai l.comwrote:

Hi,
>
I have a bunch of similar DTDs written by different coders.
>
I would like to normalize, sort elements and attributes by name and
compare those files.
>
Do you know any XML DTD parser/normalizer written in Python ?
>
If not, how would you perform that task in Python language ?
>
Please,
>
Olive.

Olive,

Beautiful Soup is usually recommended for parsing XML/HTML.

https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

You could also use pyXML. See the recipe below for one way to use it:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/220472

xmlproc has a way of parsing DTDs, or so I hear. I think it's a part
of pyXML.

I hope this stuff gives you some ideas.

Mike
See also the SAX module: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.sax.handler.html

[olive]

Re: XML DTD analysis, diffing ...

Mike,

I know all of these tools and I already suspected xmlproc as a good
candidate.

The problem is I can't download it for the moment since Lars website
is blocked here at my work and PyXML is dead.

Maybe there is an alternative download link ?

Thank you for the Cookbook recipe anyway.

Olivier.

[Paul Boddie]

Re: XML DTD analysis, diffing ...

On 3 Apr, 15:52, "olive" <ocolli...@gmai l.comwrote:

>
I know all of these tools and I already suspected xmlproc as a good
candidate.
>
The problem is I can't download it for the moment since Lars website
is blocked here at my work and PyXML is dead.
>
Maybe there is an alternative download link ?

Isn't xmlproc part of PyXML anyway? Detailed public information about
various PyXML packages suggests that it is. For example:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/python/python-xml

Paul

[kyosohma@gmail.com]

Re: XML DTD analysis, diffing ...

On Apr 3, 8:52 am, "olive" <ocolli...@gmai l.comwrote:

Mike,
>
I know all of these tools and I already suspected xmlproc as a good
candidate.
>
The problem is I can't download it for the moment since Lars website
is blocked here at my work and PyXML is dead.
>
Maybe there is an alternative download link ?
>
Thank you for the Cookbook recipe anyway.
>
Olivier.

When I go to the xmlproc website, it states that it is now a part of
the PyXML package, which can be found on Soureforge here:

http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/

Mike

[olive]

Re: XML DTD analysis, diffing ...

Thanks Paul and Mike,

I've found the good link and just downloaded pyXML.

Olive.

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Muller?=]

Re: XML DTD analysis, diffing ...

olive a écrit :

Hi,
>
I have a bunch of similar DTDs written by different coders.
>
I would like to normalize, sort elements and attributes by name and
compare those files.
>
Do you know any XML DTD parser/normalizer written in Python ?

Yes, you can try http://c.python.free.fr/dtdnormalize.zip

Parse a sample XML file with the document type declaration. There are
XHTML, SVG and MML samples in the zip file.

The DTDParser is based on the standard xml.parsers.exp at module.


Stephane.

[olive]

Re: XML DTD analysis, diffing ...

Thank you Stephane,

it is almost what I want.

I'm going to improve it a little and then provide the code back.
Where is the best place ?

Olive.