Hi all,

I have a bit of a question. I need to write an XML file detailing two or more states, each state with two or more counties as well as each county with two or more cities. I already have the DTD file laid out like this:

<!ELEMENT usa(state+)>

<!ELEMENT state(stName, stCapital, stPopulation, stArea, StGovernor,stCounties)>

<!ELEMENT stName (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT stCapital (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT stPopulation (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT stArea (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT stGovenor (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT stCounties(county+)>

<!ELEMENT county(coName,coSeat,coPopulation)>

<!ELEMENT coName (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT coSeat (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT coPopulation (#PCDATA)>

This is my first time writing anything strictly in XML format so how should I go about this? Are there any freeware XML editors I should know about?

If any of you need to, you can go to http://matcmadison.edu/faculty/jjone...0/A10descr.htm

Ben
Madison Area Technical College student
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I am one of those people that you call "Microsoft Access Freaks". I'm addicted to Access

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Welcome to the New Age

GOT IT!!!! I opened Visual InterDev 6 and found an XML file reference there so I'm using that program to write the XML file

Ben
Madison Area Technical College student
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I am one of those people that you call "Microsoft Access Freaks". I'm addicted to Access

Hi Ben,

You could do a lot worse than the free editor Cooktop. See http://xmlcooktop.com

XMLSpy is v good, but unfortunately not free.

rgds
Phil

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the heads up about Cooktop. However, wouldn't Visual InterDev 6 be just as good for editing XML documents? I mean, I know from earlier experiences that Visual InterDev provides an XML document template from which to start with. I have not had any problems writing XML files with VI 6 so I don't see why I shouldn't be able to use that.

Ben
Madison Area Technical College student
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I am one of those people that you call "Microsoft Access Freaks". I'm addicted to Access

Ben, yes use Interdev if you like it's fine. Cooktop will become more useful if you get into stuff like XSLT and XPath - its got a very handy XPath tester.

rgds
Phil