DTD Generator and DTD Conversion Tools

<%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> includes a collection of helpful DTD utilities, including DTD generation and DTD-to-XML Schema conversion wizards.

Generate Document Type Definitions (DTDs)

<%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> supports the automatic generation and association of both internal and external DTDs based on XML instance documents. A Schema tab at the bottom of the XML editor allows you to view the XML content model associated with the XML document that is currently being edited.

If no content model has previously been associated, <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> can optionally generate an XML content model expressed in either a DTD or an XML Schema for you. In the case of DTDs, you can specify to generate either an internal or external dtd as shown below.

If you choose to generate an Internal DTD, <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> will automatically insert the DTD including the !DOCTYPE declaration for you inside of your XML document.

If you choose to generate an external DTD, the DTD generator will save the result to a file, and insert the !DOCTYPE declaration at the top of XML instance document you were working on, which will reference the external DTD, thereby enabling various enhanced XML editing and validation features.

The use of XML content models expressed in DTD or XML Schema is an optional, yet recommended practice because it allows you to constrain the data of your custom XML content models, and to easily check XML instance documents for consistency using any validating XML parser such as those included with <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%>.

Convert DTD to XML Schema

In addition to DTD and XML Schema generation capabilities, <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> supports conversion of DTDs to XML Schemas, a more the W3C's recommended XML data modeling language. Just click File > Document Wizards to display the DTD to XML Schema conversion Wizard and others.

<%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%>'s DTD to XML Schema Wizard makes it easy to migrate from DTDs to XML Schema.

In summary: <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%>'s automatic generation capabilities for DTDs and XML Schemas and its DTD-to-XSD conversion tools ensure easy development XML of content models without requiring any prior knowledge of complex DTD or XML Schema syntax.