- From: Gmail Directeur <directeur@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 23:37:41 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Hi folks :) This is my first message here, so please excuse my poor english (it's my 4th language). I'm working on a same thing, with php and xslt, and I wanted to know if I could use the 0.8dev version for my script use, I mean before the 0.7.3 release. With of course respecting the minimal 1second sleep before every call. By the way I discovered some errors (I think they are) in the soap results of the CSS validator, it's about character entities '&' and '<' and '>' I'll send a message to the right list. Thanks for the good work! -- Karim On 10/6/06, olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org> wrote: > > 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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