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I'm Andy Lester, and I like to test stuff. I also write for the Perl Journal, and do tech edits on books. Sometimes I write code, too.

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Wednesday February 25, 2004
11:30 PM

HTML::Tidy 1.00 is finally out

[ #17630 ]
My followup to HTML::Lint, HTML::Tidy, has just been released at version 1.00. It does NOT include the Test::HTML::Tidy wrapper, but it DOES include a handy guide on how to build libtidy, and a transition guide for HTML::Lint users.

What would you do with HTML::Tidy? Something like this:

    use HTML::Tidy;

    my $tidy = new HTML::Tidy;
    $tidy->ignore( type => TIDY_WARNING );
    $tidy->parse( "foo.html", $contents_of_foo );

    for my $message ( $tidy->messages ) {
        print $message->as_string;
    }

or some other level of automated HTML checking. With Test::HTML::Tidy (which I hope to get out tonight), you'll be able to do

    html_tidy_ok( $html, "HTML is properly tidy" );

in your *.t scripts. Whee!


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  • So does this have the same functionality as the on-line W3C validator service (without having to go to the web)? I believe their validator is just a perl script that calls tidy somehow.

    http://validator.w3.org/ [w3.org]

    • Hrmm, i don't think so.

      Check the source page [w3.org]. No mention of Tidy. Also, it says "OpenSP is the SGML and XML parser used by the service". So i assume it parses the output from that.

    • I believe the W3C Validator does not use tidylib. It uses
      use File::Spec          qw();
      use HTML::Parser   3.25 qw(); # Need 3.25 for $p->ignore_elements.
      .. and some other good stuff. The source [w3.org] is available. I would be very interested to know the similarities and differences between tidylib and this validation. [I could go look it up!]
      • The W3C validator requires an installation of OpenSP [sf.net], which is a fairly heavyweight requirement.

        I'm not sure quite what tidylib does, but I'm going to give it a play and see what it does. If it's faster than onsgmls, then I'm all for it!

        Your other option for validation is to get libxml2 (in its perl form XML::LibXML) set up. The disadvantage (which it shares with OpenSP) is that it requires you to have all the catalogs for html/xhtml set up correctly. I'm assuming that tidylib has all that sort of st

        • There are CGI tidy interfaces out there, so you can see what tidy reports on. tidy also does cleanup on the HTML, and prettifies it for you, although HTML::Lint doesn't support that.
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