tdtd Emacs Mode for DTDs

The tdtd package for an Emacs major mode for editing SGML and XML DTDs is available in tdtd.zip at http://www.menteith.com/wiki/tdtd/data. Installation instructions are included in the file readme.txt in the tdtd distribution.

Do not bookmark anything about tdtd other than this page since this web site is still a work in progress and filenames and directories may still change.

A tutorial on using tdtd is available at http://www.menteith.com/wiki/tdtd/tutorial.

The current revision is 0.7.1 dated March 24, 1999.

Features of tdtd revision 0.7.1 include:

  • Standalone mode for editing DTDs;
  • "Goto" menu for locating declarations within the current buffer;
  • dtd-etags function for creating Emacs TAGS files for easy lookup of any element, parameter entity, or notation's definition using Emacs's built-in tag-lookup functions;
  • dtd-grep function for searching files that shares a file history with dtd-etags for easy searching of the same files with both functions;
  • Specific font lock highlighting of declarations in XML DTDs, SGML DTDs, SGML Declarations, and System Declarations so that the important information stands out;
  • XML-specific behaviour that, at user option, is triggered by automatic detection of the XML Declaration;
  • Functions for writing and editing element, attribute, internal parameter entity and external parameter entity declarations and comments to ease creating and keeping a consistent style; and
  • Elements and parameter entity names referenced in declarations are stored in minibuffer history to minimise retyping in new declarations.

dtd-mode references sgml-validate for its validation function. Use with Lennart Staflin's psgml package is recommended.

Use with resize-minibuffer-mode is also recommended.

The "Goto" menu is only available if you have imenu.el.

dtd-mode was tested using NTEmacs 19.34.1 and NTEmacs 20.3.1.

Subversion

You can check out the latest (and possibly unstable) code using: 

svn co https://svn.menteith.com/trunk/tdtd tdtd

Before you either use or install tdtd, you will have to make tdtd-font.el as described in readme.txt.

Ubuntu

tdtd is available for Ubuntu (and, presumably, Debian) as the tdtd package.