Re: Please test http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/
Adrian Aichner wrote:
PSGML can do other nice things. Currently it intends all HTML
according to the indenting style we have chosen.
It may also normalize all tags and convert them to lower-case in
preparation for a migration to XML.
What's the scope of the validator? Can it do things like that too?
The core idea is that it will do a strict validation against the
relevant DTD. None of Weblint's "I think thats a bad idea" stuff, but
actual objective "This is correct (see section x in SGML spec); this is
incorrect (see section y in SGML spec)". It currently has the added
features of contructing an outline of the document based on Hn elements
and of showing the logical parse tree; both as an aid to understanding
what went wrong and how to fix it. Basically to visualize how an SGML
processor sees the document.
There are several extended features that are on the TODO list.
";imgonly" is one. A report in XML for easy parsing and possibly an
XML-RPC/SOAP calling convention (which might make a nice interface that
XEmacs could use, BTW). Options to canonicalize input, convert it to
XML, or perform other transformations on it. All the hard work is being
done in James Clark's SP (and possibly OpenSP and expat in the future);
we're just builing a "friendly" shell on top of it.
However, all that is waporware for the forseeable future. I intend to
devote some time to it over the next few months, but 1) I'm not the most
reliable of people in this department (Real Life has a nasty habit of
interfering) and 2) Gerald Oskoboiny (the maintainer over at W3C; wrote
the "Kinder, Gentler, HTML Validator" (which the W3C Validator stems
from) if you recall) has a turnover time for patches that can only be
described as glacial!
Source is available from the W3C CVS server (links can be found from
<URL:http://validator.w3.org/>) and I'm trying out chronicalling my
development efforts using Advogato's Diary at
<URL:http://advogato.org/person/link/>;. BTW, I'm mucking about with it
because I use the Validator internally so my mods aren't always relevant
to the W3C service. The net result is if anyone wants a feature, but
don't want to implement it, I'd be happy to look into it, but I have no
say in what the W3C does over at validator.w3.org. All I can do is
supply patches, Gerald decides what goes up on w3.org.