On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Richard Knapp wrote:
> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:02:50 -0500 (EST)
> From: Richard Knapp <gyp_caver@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: cavexml@cartography.ch
> To: "cavexml@cartography.ch" <cavexml@cartography.ch>
> Subject: Re: Validing proposed CaveXML DTD's.
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:45:36 -0700 (MST), John Halleck wrote:
>
> >My personal opinion:
>
> + $0.02US if you don't mind... <g>
>
> > So... Here is a site that has a good (in my opinion) list
> > of availible tools. *NOTE* Some of the resources are web
>
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/check-xml.html
>
> Huge programs.
>
> > (with, for example, http://www.stg.brown.edu/service/xmlvalid/
> > allowing pasted in examples. Note, however, that this vaidator...
>
> Very picky. Didn't like comments and didn't like ENTITY.
It has passed many of my DTD's with comments. Rememeber that comments
can't go anywhere.
I'd have to see the DTD in question to see what complaint it had about
entities.
> One I found extremely useful is DTDExplorer available at http://www.mathweb.org/~paul/DTDexplorer/. Very
> small (zipped 263K), uses Java 1.1.6 and up, and is pretty good on reporting errors. I used a command
> window to run the program and another window with my favorite editor to bring my DTD up to speed. In a few
> minutes, I had a much more valid DTD, found some logic errors, and added more functionality. Very fast, too,
> much better than VisualXML.
>
> FWIW...
>
> - Richard Knapp
>
>
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