Declaring a DTD inline

[Jared]

Hello everyone,

I have been researching for some time now, but I cannot figure out how
to declare a DTD within my XML document using Java. Does anyone know
how this can be done?

Here is some data I've gathered:

- the DOMImplementation.createDocumentType method only creates
external DTDs (SYSTEM or PUBLIC)

- Transformer.setOutputProperty and Transformer.transform method
allows me to print out a reference to an external SYSTEM or PUBLIC DTD
in an xml file.

For such a large time investment, I have gathered suprisingly little
data.

Well, if someone could let me know if declaring an DTD inline is
possible with Java, that would be great.

Thanks,
Jared

 

[Roedy Green]

I have been researching for some time now, but I cannot figure out how
to declare a DTD within my XML document using Java. Does anyone know
how this can be done?

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/xml.html

 

[Sudsy]

Jared wrote:

Well, if someone could let me know if declaring an DTD inline is
possible with Java, that would be great.

Thanks,
Jared

An example from http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-prolog-dtd
regarding in-line DTD definition:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE greeting [
<!ELEMENT greeting (#PCDATA)>
]>
<greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>

Writing Java code which will generate the in-line DTD is left
as an exercise for the reader.