RE: WebIDL checker

Hi Dom,

Thanks for the very useful tool!

I think it should be clarified what validity means.
I did similar tool for BONDI APIs, and the problems I encountered were related to the BONDI Design Patterns we agreed on there.
E.g. Web IDL itself may be correct on syntax level, but it may violate the design patterns by wrong inheritance, wrong naming, wrong values for constants etc. I call this a semantic checker.
I understand this could be first done once we have some design patterns e.g. in DAP and probably then only for DAP.

The specification of the generated HTML would be good.
It could be something like "spec of the spec".
I mean here documenting the classes you use in the output, like "interface", "attributes", "attribute", "consts" etc.

Thanks.

Kind regards,
Marcin

BTW: Little typo: In the generated output there is missing a space between attribute's and constants' type and name.

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-----Original Message-----
From: public-device-apis-request@w3.org [mailto:public-device-apis-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:21 AM
To: spec-prod@w3.org
Subject: WebIDL checker

(bcc to public-html, public-webapps, public-device-apis)

Hello,

I have just released a simple on-line WebIDL checker:
http://www.w3.org/2009/07/webidl-check
It detects bugs in the WebIDLs it finds inside HTML documents - it looks
for <pre> elements with a class set to "idl" or "webidl", and then
validates what it extracts using Aplix' widlproc:
http://widl.webvm.net/svn/widlproc/trunk/doc/widlproc.html

See it for instance:
 * applied to HTML5: http://www.w3.org/2009/07/webidl-check?doc=http%3A%
2F%2Fdev.w3.org%2Fhtml5%2Fspec%2FOverview.html
 * to Geolocation: http://www.w3.org/2009/07/webidl-check?doc=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2F2009%2FWD-geolocation-API-20090707%2F

More details on my blog:
http://people.w3.org/~dom/archives/2009/07/webidl-checker/

I'm open for suggestions of improvements - in particular if having a
other output formats in addition to the HTML report would be useful.

Hope this useful to some,

Dom




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