---
name: "dtd2vim"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "vim-scripts"
version: "20210124.4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dtd2vim"
---

# dtd2vim(1)

creates XML data file for Vim7 omni completion from DTDs

## NAME

dtd2vim - creates XML data file for Vim7 omni completion from DTDs

## SYNOPSIS

**dtd2vim** {*filename*.dtd} \[*dialectname*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents brieftly the **dtd2vim** program. For more information see its HTML documentation in /usr/share/doc/vim-scripts/html/dtd2vim.html.

Starting from version 7 Vim supports context aware completion of XML files (and others). In particular, when the file being edited is an XML file, completion can be driven by the grammar extracted from a Document Type Definition (DTD).

For this feature to work the user should put an XML data file corresponding to the desired DTD in a autoload/xml directory contained in a directory belonging to Vim's *'runtimepath'* (for example ~/.vim/autoload/xml/).

**dtd2vim** is the program that creates XML data files from DTDs. Given as input a DTD *file*.dtd it will create a file.vim XML data file. *dialectname* will be part of dictionary name and will be used as argument for the **:XMLns** command.

## OPTIONS

None.

## SEE ALSO

vim (1).

In the Vim online help: **:help compl-omni**, **:help ft-xml-omni**, **:help :XMLns**.

dtd2vim is fully documented in /usr/share/doc/vim-scripts/html/dtd2vim.html.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Stefano Zacchiroli \<zack@debian.org\> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

## AUTHOR

**Stefano Zacchiroli**

Author.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007 Stefano Zacchiroli\