[TAG] rhubarb

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

Hello,

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:35:20AM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:35:26AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> > 
> > You could also reduce the load on the w3c server by using "tidy" which
> > is their downloadable validator (written in Perl).
> 
> Thanks, Kapil, that's a handy tip! I already ran "tidy" on my HTML, but
> I also have a link that says

Since Ben thanked me I checked my info more carefully :-)

What I "meant" was the program "tidy-proxy" which allows you to view
pages through "tidy". So you run "tidy-proxy" (you also need to install
"tidy"), then set your web proxy as "http://localhost:9090/".  After this
any page you view will be examined.

In the process, I also found "wdg-html-validator" which is actually a
"local" version of the validator. It depends on lots of SGML stuff and
so I suppose does a "formal" validation using the DTD's and so on. I
haven't tried it out.

You can also ask "tidy-proxy" to use "wdg-html-validator" with the
"--action v" switch.

Regards,

Kapil.

DISCLAIMER(!): "tidy" "tidy-proxy" and "wdg-html-validator" are the Debian
package names. If you use any other distribution you will probably find
equivalent packages with similar names.

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