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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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