From: Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@...>
Date: 2009-06-15T23:04:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] markup_validity 1.0.0 Released

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Aaron
Patterson<aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
> markup_validity version 1.0.0 has been released!
>
> * <http://github.com/tenderlove/markup_validity>
>
> MarkupValidity provides test/unit and rspec helpers for checking the validity
> of your documents.  Shortcuts for verifying xhtml-transitional and
> xhtml-strict documents are provided as well.  MarkupValidity will not only
> tell you when your document is invalid, but it will tell you what it *should*
> be.
>
> Changes:
>
> ### 1.0.0 / 2009-06-11
>
> * 1 major enhancement
>
>  * Birthday!
>
> ## FEATURES/PROBLEMS:
>
> * Make sure that markup_validity is required *after* test/unit, or mix
>  MarkupValidity::Assertions in to your test class yourself.
> * Currently AWESOME!
>
> ## SYNOPSIS:
>
>  ###
>  # test/unit example
>  require 'test/unit'
>  require 'rubygems'
>  require 'markup_validity'
>
>  class ValidHTML < Test::Unit::TestCase
>    def test_i_can_has_valid_xhtml
>      assert_xhtml_transitional xhtml_document
>    end
>  end
>
>  ###
>  # rspec example
>  require 'rubygems'
>  require 'markup_validity'
>
>  describe "my XHTML document" do
>    it "can has transitional xhtml" do
>      xhtml_document.should be_xhtml_transitional
>    end
>  end
>
>  ###
>  # Rails controller test example
>  require 'test_helper'
>  require 'markup_validity'
>
>  class AwesomeControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
>    test "valid markup" do
>      get :new
>      assert_xhtml_transitional @response.body
>    end
>  end
>
>  ###
>  # Here is an example error report
>
>  Error on line: 7:
>  Element 'p': This element is not expected. Expected is one of ( a, br, span, bdo, object, applet, img, map, iframe, tt ).
>
>  6:     <p>
>  7:       <p>
>  8:         Yo dawg, I heard you like p-tags
>  9:       </p>
>  10:     </p>
>  .
>  <false> is not true.
>
> ## REQUIREMENTS:
>
> * depends on nokogiri
>
> ## INSTALL:
>
> * gem install markup_validity
>
> * <http://github.com/tenderlove/markup_validity>
>
> --
> Aaron Patterson
> http://tenderlovemaking.com/

This is very cool, I'd like to integrate support for this into
Tarantula (http://github.com/relevance/tarantula/tree/master).  How
does this compare to tidy or the w3c validator?

thanks,
Rob