DTD parser solved...

After I wrote the previous entry, one of my ex-colleagues pinged my to point me in the direction of Oracles XML package. A quick look at the web site shows that it probably has everything I needed except one thing ... a compatible license. So I had to continue on to write my own which I have now completed!

The 0.1 version of it is running now in my development environment and I am feeling pretty okay about it. Not too bulky and quite fast. I must admit that until now I was blissfully unaware of the intracasies of DTD files. My parser is a schema metadata extraction tool, not a validating instance parser. I have used that fact to cut a few corners in my implementation.

Now of to look at Jersey ....