Jerry> Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; wrote: Jerry> [speaking of retrieving the DTD declaration from a document:] Jerry> Oh, now I see what you are trying to do. Well, since the Jerry> information you want doesn't appear to be stored anywhere, Jerry> how about parsing it out of the buffer again? Something Jerry> like this should do the trick: Jerry> (save-excursion Jerry> (goto-char (point-min)) Jerry> (sgml-with-parser-syntax Jerry> (let (start) Jerry> (sgml-skip-upto "MDO") Jerry> (setq start (point)) Jerry> (sgml-skip-upto-mdc) Jerry> (forward-char 1) Jerry> (buffer-substring start (point))))) Thanks Jerry. batch-psgml-validate.el uses the above now. Jerry> It has some XML support. The XHTML 1.0 DTD is included in Jerry> the package. You could try using that to get a feel for Jerry> it. Look good. I have to manually switch to xml-mode though, to get the DTD parsed. Is this right? Will XML documents eventually use a .xml extension? Jerry> [The next part deals with using (sgml-next-trouble-spot) to Jerry> get a list of problems in a document.] Jerry> Have you considered using (sgml-validate Jerry> (sgml-default-validate-command)) to invoke a real SGML Jerry> validator (say nsgmls)? That would put all the error I stopped using external validation programs ever since I found PSGML. Jerry> messages in a buffer, ready for parsing by Jerry> compilation-mode. It also would eliminate the false Jerry> positives that sgml-next-trouble-spot tends to generate in Jerry> some situations. (PSGML isn't a full SGML parser, although Jerry> it does a pretty good job.) I think that would be a lot I have yet to find an instance where PSGML screws up. Jerry> easier. Jerry> On the other hand, nsgmls doesn't have DTDDECL support, so Jerry> it generates lots of bogus messages, too. You'd have to I won't use it then. Jerry> throw away or ignore every message containing the string Jerry> DTDDECL. Or fix nsgmls. :-) -- Jerry James Email: Got enough on my hands already :-) Jerry> james(a)eecs.ukans.edu WWW: http://www.eecs.ukans.edu/~james/ Thanks for your help! Best regards, Adrian -- Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt;