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April 18, 2011
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"Flattening" a DTD

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Good Morning!
Haven't seen anything even close to this one:

Most of our DTDs have a significant portion of their content in entities (in some cases, all but the root element). This promotes, of course, the use of the same structure for a given purpose across all doctypes.

Our problem is, when we deliver data, we deliver a copy of the then-current doctype DTD as well. This means someone must gather up copies of all the needed entities, as well as the main doctype file. That has proven to mildly error-prone.

We tested using Architect or Editor to flatten the entities ('doc_flatten all'), but without success. The former has no Command Line in the requisite window, and the latter insists on loading a DTD as an ASCII file, in which case 'doc_flatten' has no effect.

Thoughts? Ideas?

Thanks in Advance,
Steve Thompson
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    steve.thompson41-VisitorAuthor
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    April 19, 2011
    Bill,
    Our installation media do not include that app. But then, we're still using 5.2 on our PC workstations, so maybe it's something included in later versions.

    Thanks anyway,
    Steve Thompson
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    AndyEsslinger1-Visitor
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    April 19, 2011
    Steve,



    Here is a snapshot from Epic version 5.1, and it is the same on 5.3 so I assume it would be there for 5.2 also.



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    BobSpangenburg1-Visitor
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    April 19, 2011

    Steve,


    Near and Far has been gone for sometime. I used to have a copy that worked great for SGML (must be smart to inclusions/exclusions and tag omission control), however no longer works on recent versions ofWindows.


    I have a manual process, probably no different than anyone else, so it's tedious. However, just as someone already mentioned, you have to add the human factor for errors.


    I've gone to the link that Gareth provided and you end up 'registering' on their site (in Germany) with a minimum of your last name, e-mail address and whether or not you want to participate in their e-mail listing. Then, they send you a link to the zip file so you can download it. So far, I'm onboard, but I have to wait until I get home to try it out since I'm not putting any 'free' software on my company's computer/network.


    I've also seen (through searches) some references to a program run through Perl, but could never get it to work.


    Assuming you still use the cut-back version of CPA, you know how many fragments the DTD sets are broken upinto. The initial 25 for CPA are now about 44 for me, all based on the 38784 (or variation to it). I am constantly flattening the DTD's and it takes me about a hour or so to get one done. A pain to say the least. I use a tool called "Search & Replace" by Funduc Software that does a lot of the work, followed by using TextPad to finish it up. The output is fairly decent for reading.


    Take care, and hope this helps some,


    Bob

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    steve.thompson41-VisitorAuthor
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    April 28, 2011
    So we finally got clearance to do a test install of Turbo XML. Good that far.

    Someone on here said they had to point it to the entity locations. I'm sure that was 'intuitive' for them, since the documentation and reviews all seem to describe it that way, but it hasn't fit my intuition yet.

    Or maybe I misunderstood.

    In any case, having difficulty getting it to see the location of the files referenced by our parameter entities. We're using entries that depend on the public ids being found using a catalog. Doesn't look like that's acceptable, but also haven't found where to give it the path to our 'DTDents' folder.

    Currently blaming sinusitis for my mental density,
    Steve Thompson
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