Re: [xml-dev] Auto-generate a DTD from multiple XML documents?

• From: Jon Noring <jon@...>
• To: xml-dev@...
• Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:11:17 -0600

Michael Kay wrote:

> The Saxon DTDGenerator only handles one input document, but I've used it for
> this scenario in the past, simply by concatenating all the documents within
> a dummy root element, generating the DTD, and then discarding the dummy root
> element definition. (It doesn't need to be a physical concatenation, you can
> set up a document that brings all the others in as external entities).

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> I produced a new version of the DTDGenerator a couple of weeks ago, as it
> happens - the first release for 6 years, fixing a bug that caused it to
> slowly eat memory in proportion to the number of distinct attribute values.
> After fixing that, I was able to process 20Gb of input in about 25 minutes.
> It's available as a free-standing download from the Saxon project on
> sourceforge.

Thanks Michael! I'll let the others know about the new DTDGenerator.
Seems like it was fixed just in time.

Jon Noring