Module Xml_light.Dtd

Xml Light DTD

This module provide several functions to create, check, and use DTD to prove Xml documents :

using the DTD types, you can directly create your own DTD structure
the Dtd.check function can then be used to check that all DTD states have been declared, that no attributes are declared twice, and so on.
the Dtd.prove function can be used to check an Xml data structure with a checked DTD. The function will return the expanded Xml document or raise an exception if the DTD proving fails.

Note about ENTITIES:

While parsing Xml, PCDATA is always parsed and the Xml entities & > < ' " are replaced by their corresponding ASCII characters. For Xml attributes, theses can be put between either double or simple quotes, and the backslash character can be used to escape inner quotes. There is no support for CDATA Xml nodes or PCDATA attributes declarations in DTD, and no support for user-defined entities using the ENTITY DTD element.

The DTD Types

include module type of Dtd0

type dtd_child = Types.dtd_child =

| DTDTag of string

| DTDPCData

| DTDOptional of dtd_child

| DTDZeroOrMore of dtd_child

| DTDOneOrMore of dtd_child

| DTDChoice of dtd_child list

| DTDChildren of dtd_child list

type dtd_element_type = Types.dtd_element_type =

| DTDEmpty

| DTDAny

| DTDChild of dtd_child

type dtd_attr_default = Types.dtd_attr_default =

| DTDDefault of string

| DTDRequired

| DTDImplied

| DTDFixed of string

type dtd_attr_type = Types.dtd_attr_type =

| DTDCData

| DTDNMToken

| DTDEnum of string list

| DTDID

| DTDIDRef

type dtd_item = Types.dtd_item =

| DTDAttribute of string * string * dtd_attr_type * dtd_attr_default

| DTDElement of string * dtd_element_type

type dtd = dtd_item list

type checked

The DTD Functions

val parse_file : string ‑> dtd

Parse the named file into a Dtd data structure. Raise Xml.File_not_found if an error occured while opening the file. Raise Dtd.Parse_error if parsing failed.

val parse_in : Pervasives.in_channel ‑> dtd

Read the content of the in_channel and parse it into a Dtd data structure. Raise Dtd.Parse_error if parsing failed.

val parse_string : string ‑> dtd

Parse the string containing a Dtd document into a Dtd data structure. Raise Dtd.Parse_error if parsing failed.

val check : dtd ‑> checked

Check the Dtd data structure declaration and return a checked DTD. Raise Dtd.Check_error if the DTD checking failed.

val prove : checked ‑> string ‑> Types.xml ‑> Types.xml

Prove an Xml document using a checked DTD and an entry point. The entry point is the first excepted tag of the Xml document, the returned Xml document has the same structure has the original one, excepted that non declared optional attributes have been set to their default value specified in the DTD. Raise Dtd.Check_errorElementNotDeclared if the entry point is not found, raise Dtd.Prove_error if the Xml document failed to be proved with the DTD.

val to_string : dtd_item ‑> string

Print a DTD element into a string. You can easily get a DTD document from a DTD data structure using for example String.concat "\n" (List.map Dtd.to_string) my_dtd

The DTD Exceptions

There is three types of DTD excecptions :

Dtd.Parse_error is raised when an error occured while parsing a DTD document into a DTD data structure.
Dtd.Check_error is raised when an error occured while checking a DTD data structure for completeness, or when the prove entry point is not found when calling Dtd.prove.
Dtd.Prove_error is raised when an error occured while proving an Xml document.

Several string conversion functions are provided to enable you to report errors to the user.

type parse_error_msg =

| InvalidDTDDecl

| InvalidDTDElement

| InvalidDTDAttribute

| InvalidDTDTag

| DTDItemExpected

type check_error =

| ElementDefinedTwice of string

| AttributeDefinedTwice of string * string

| ElementEmptyContructor of string

| ElementReferenced of string * string

| ElementNotDeclared of string

| WrongImplicitValueForID of string * string

type prove_error =

| UnexpectedPCData

| UnexpectedTag of string

| UnexpectedAttribute of string

| InvalidAttributeValue of string

| RequiredAttribute of string

| ChildExpected of string

| EmptyExpected

| DuplicateID of string

| MissingID of string

type parse_error = parse_error_msg * Types.error_pos

exception Parse_error of parse_error

exception Check_error of check_error

exception Prove_error of prove_error

val parse_error : parse_error ‑> string

val check_error : check_error ‑> string

val prove_error : prove_error ‑> string