Re: Validating a html page NOT interactively

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002, Thierry Vieville wrote:
>  We will NOT be able to interactively validate all pages

> but need a local tool for that. Is there any solution :
> 	(ii) acceding the service in ``batch'' mode so that it will provide a status, 

The WDG validator [1] allows validation in batch mode. 
W3C QA is also preparing (still beta) a tool [2] that may help (it finds
the invalid documents you should fix in priority).

[1] http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/
[2] http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/LogValidator/

>  [my best idea is to create a small java program which call
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri= and parse its output but this is a bit heavy
> insn't ?]

You could also install the W3C HTML validator locally if you're
concerned about this:
http://validator.w3.org/source/

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Olivier Thereaux - W3C
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Received on Tuesday, 30 July 2002 20:49:44 UTC