From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2004-12-27T12:51:50+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML and CSS validation

John W. Long wrote:
> I personally like:
> 
> http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

Thanks for the tip, I hadn't found that one in
my prior searches.

But my twist is that I would like to automate the
validation check /before/ publishing the pages
to a webserver.

Right now I have to manually use one of the file
upload validators interfaces such as,

  http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/upload.html
  http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html

because I'm reluctant to install W3's source due
to it's large dependency chain and I'm too stupid
to figure out how to automate the interaction
with these file upload interfaces.

 From looking at their form source and reading a bit
about file upload forms, I gather that I have to send
a form with enctype="multipart/form-data", but it
is unclear just how to do this.

Regards,
-- 
Bil Kleb, Hampton, Virginia
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov