Anonymizing DTD or XML Schema

[Michael Wein]

Hello,

does anyone know of a tool that automatically anonymizes a DTD or XML Schema? By anonymizing I mean renaming all elements/type definitions but still containing the structure, esp. the references/dependencies.

Background: we have problems handling an XML Schema with our XML editor and the vendor requires the schema for debugging purposes. But unfortunately the XML Schema comes from a different company and contains confident information so that disclosing it to the vendor of the XML editor would probably violate an NDA. If you wonder that I mixed up DTD and XML Schema:
basically that doesn't matter to us since the XML Schema was generated from a DTD. Anonymizing either of those would help us.

 

[Philippe Poulard]

Hello,

does anyone know of a tool that automatically anonymizes a DTD or XML Schema? By anonymizing I mean renaming all elements/type definitions but still containing the structure, esp. the references/dependencies.

Background: we have problems handling an XML Schema with our XML editor and the vendor requires the schema for debugging purposes. But unfortunately the XML Schema comes from a different company and contains confident information so that disclosing it to the vendor of the XML editor would probably violate an NDA. If you wonder that I mixed up DTD and XML Schema:
basically that doesn't matter to us since the XML Schema was generated from a DTD. Anonymizing either of those would help us.

hi,

as XML Schema is XML, you may use XSLT to rename each declaration; you may use generate-id to compute the new name of the elements and the attributes

 

[Michael Wein]

as XML Schema is XML, you may use XSLT to rename each declaration; you may use generate-id to compute the new name of the elements and the attributes

Already thought of this. I am just not sure how to handle all the references/dependencies.

Of course I would prefer something ready made, too ;-)