Re: [xml-dev] XML -> SGML serialization. Any ideas ?

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Re: [xml-dev] XML -> SGML serialization. Any ideas ?
Thanks Tony, for this !

I'm able to produce a XML file, with all exotic-characters escaped, with 
a reference to a DTD, that's perfect.

Now, I have to try to see if it's valid as a SGML file...

Thanks again,
Christophe


Le 13/07/2018 à 12:07, Tony Graham a écrit :
> On 13/07/2018 11:00, Christophe Marchand wrote:
>> I have to give data to a very old application, which can only read SGML.
>>
>> My data structure is really simple (records of filename, title), but 
>
> I hope that you don't have any empty elements.
>
>> contains characters that are not ASCII. So I have to translate them 
>> to use entities (I think SGML has a set of declared entities for 
>> characters with accents, as &eacute;, @agrave;, and so on).
>>
>> I'd like the file could be read by XML parsers too, and I'm looking 
>> for a method to produce an XML that is also SGML. I think to use XSL 
>> with characters map, but how could I define the embeded DTD, with all 
>> entities defined ?
>
> Use the "XML Entity Definitions for Characters":
> https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/
>
> It also has an XSLT2 stylesheet for mapping from Unicode characters to
> entity references.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tony Graham.