- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:26:21 +0900
- To: Martin Côté <martincote13@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hello Martin, On Sep 19, 2006, at 03:54 , Martin Côté wrote: > I'm developing a script that uses the XML output of the validator to > automatically check pages. Which language is your script in? Just asking because there are a couple of libraries for perl and python (and Ruby too if I'm not mistaken) that could help you. > Everything is working great except the error count. That's indeed a bug, but I don't think we will be fixing it. The XML output has long been experimental, and will be replaced by a web service API which we've developed over the past year or so. (as seen on the development instance of the validator) http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/docs/api The timeline will be: release 0.7.3 (within a few weeks): the validator will include its new web service output, and the xml output will be deprecated release 0.8.0 (later this year): the XML output will not be available any more. Note that if you only need to know the number of errors for a validated document, you can use the HTTP header X-W3C-Validator- Errors present in all validation responses. I would, in any case, advise against scraping the validator's output for results, as this is a fragile method. And finally, of course, unless you are using a local installation of the validator, please be careful not to abused the shared resource, and get your scripts to sleep() between validation requests. Thanks. -- olivier
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