Generating a DTD

The dtdgen utility creates a document type definition (DTD) file to use with the loading utilities. The dtdgen utility uses an input text file containing a list of database table names and generates a DTD file describing the database, depending on how you invoke the dtdgen utility.

The dtdgen utility can create a DTD file based on the WebSphere Commerce database schema. If you use the DTD files provided with the starter store archives and you do not modify the database schema, you do not need to generate a DTD file using the dtdgen utility.

To generate a DTD file, or a DTD file and XML schema definition (XSD) file:

1. If necessary, configure the loading utilities.

2. Create an input text file that contains database table names, one on each line, as shown in the following example,

   MEMBER
   ADDRBOOK
   ADDRESS
   

3. Save the file as a .txt file.

4. Run the dtdgen utility. If you configured the dtdgen utility, specify the new file name as the value of the customizer parameter of the DTD Generate command.

   To generate a DTD only run the dtdgen utility with the -outfile parameter.

Related concepts

• Loading utilities

Related tasks

• Configure the loading utilities

Related reference

• dtdgen utility

• Example of wc.dtd output for the DTD Generate command

• Mapping XML data to a database schema