dtd2xml.py generates usable random XML test data out of a given input DTD. Element occurences, test text parts, language and randomness can be configured in dtd2xml.ini. DTD must consist only of ASCII chars.
Steps:
- Parse DTD as a dictionary with (element,child) key-value-tuples.
- According to multiplicity of elements and parameters in dtd2xml.ini clone and shuffle elements
- Also save attributes of elements in dictonary
- Walk town the graph which is in the first dictonary depth first and write attributes and element tags
Options can be set in file dtd2xml.ini. See example .ini file and Python source code.
- Windows for executing precompiled binary
- or alternatively Python 2.4 installed on your machine for executing source script
- if you want to use the binary you will also need MSVCR71.dll put into the dist folder (this dll is copyrighted)
- Configure dtd folder path and root element in dtd2xml.ini
- Be sure that DTD source consists only of ASCII chars
- Execute dtd2xml.exe
- Investigate result files wich have filenames like so <root_elem_name>_<language>.xml
dtd2xml_PY is licensed under the GNU General Public License, see file license.txt.