XMLBooster's DTD support
DTD's are a formalism to describe the structure
and content of a set of XML messages.
DTD's are thus quite
similar to XMLBooster's own meta-definitions,
except for the fact that DTD's only describe the XML
structures, not their mapping to a host data structure
as XMLBooster does.
XMLBooster includes both a
DTD-to-metadefinition
and a
metadefinition-to-DTD
translator.
When translating an XMLBooster meta-definition to
an equivalent DTD, some of the information is lost,
as the meta-definition formalism addresses issues such
as data typing (integer, booleans, etc.) which
DTD's don't support.
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