Since there isn't a way to create XML from a DTD (it is very unclear why you would want to do this anyway -- DTD defines a standard document while each "job request" is an XML instance of the document), I would suggest that you skip focusing on the incoming DTD's and rally 'round the "use XSL/XSLT instead to transform foreign XML requests into and out of the base request DTD format" idea.

You could still use each inbound DTD to validate incoming documents to ensure they are, well, valid, before you unleash your XSLT on them.

You ought to end up with four "phases" in your application thusly -- read from queue, validate document, transform document, write to queue.

In reply to Use XSL by cebrown
in thread XML, DTD, and Abstraction of a Data File by jk2addict

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