From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-12-26T00:20:10+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML and CSS validation

Bil Kleb wrote:
> What's the best method to automate the validation
> of HTML (and CSS)?
> 
> In 2001, someone mentioned hooking up to W3's validation
> service, http://validator.w3.org/, but my lame search
> abilities have failed to find anything more...


I don't have any suggestions for CSS (though I believe their are 
Web-based validators out there someplace), but for local validation I 
sometimes use RXP.

It's a fast validating XML parser, written in C, that runs on a variety 
of platforms.  I like it because there is a Windows version, and I can 
quickly check an XML file against a DTD.

http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html

It's not automated, though running it via backticks and grepping the 
output should be easy.  Writing a proper Ruby binding shouldn't be too 
hard either; hell, there's a Python binding, so there can't be anything 
too tricky.

Of course, I say this while not planning to do it myself.

James



> 
> Thanks,