w3cvalidator - command line edition Readme The w3cvalidator is Copyright 1995-2002 Gerald Oskoboiny for additional contributors, see http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/ This source code is available under the license at: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software The command line version of the w3c validator is a heavily mangled version of the original "check" CGI script by Gerald Oskoboiny. This version does broadly the same job, although doesn't have all the HTML niceties in it's output. It also doesn't have any HTML in the code anymore ;-) This program was originally a CGI/mod_perl program with extensive mixing of HTML and functionality. It was subsequently severely mangled by Ralph Bolton (http://www.coofercat.com) into a command line version of the same program. It now performs no HTML work at all, but has (hopefully) got machine readable output, so could be used to create an online facility that validates pages. There's no guarantee that this is the most efficient program in the world. Indeed, we can easily see it's a bit of a mess, so almost certainly isn't. However, short of a complete rewrite, it'll do nicely for a lot of jobs. Those of a Perly disposition will easily spot the original CGI script, and no doubt plenty of room for improvement. - Ralph Bolton, 29th February, 2004.