Using psgml functions externally

Hi there (hoping anybody reads this)

I know that's not really a user question: I am designing a mode for a
certain stylesheet type that could benefit from the use of DTD
information (yeah, I know DTDs are out, but I still use them, and
suspect I will do so for a long time coming). Hence, my idea would be
whether I could simply do something along the lines of:

  (require 'psgml-parse)
  (sgml-load-dtd (sgml-catalog-lookup (files pubid type name))

  ;; extract the element names from dtd-info

... whatever; I think you get the picture. I've tried to figure this
out on my own, but failed - the structure of psgml's inner workings
isn't really transparent to me.

If either of the two tasks - looking up a DTD file name and parsing
the DTD once found - could be done stealing from PSGML, that would be
great. 

I imagine I remembered that the PSGML doc used to contain a section
entitled "API" ... but that may be self-deception.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks very much!
Florian

-- 
__________________________________________________________________

                                               Florian von Savigny


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV