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DESCRIPTION
Validator... Much has been made about standards compliance in modern Web browsers. Less is made about the responsibity Web authors have to deliver correct mark-up to these programs. Some HTML authors champion one browser over another for its standards support when they themselves do little or nothing to assure their mark-up is correct. Unfortunately, most validation tools operate on one file at a time through a Web or editor interface. This makes checking large numbers of files in a production environment tedious and impractical. Validator easily checks one file or a thousand. It efficiently assures all your XML is ready for your workflow.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.4.1:
  • Resolved problem that prevented launching on some versions of Mac OS X.
  • Added XHTML Modularization 1.1, XHTML Basic 1.1, and XHTML+RDFa 1.0 FPIs.
  • Reports on checked files to assure a message appears for each run.
  • Continues processing when encountering a file or directory multiple times due to symbolic linking.
  • Packaged into an installer for Windows.
  • Enhanced support for XML Schema validation.
  • Added DocBook 5.0 FPIs.
  • Added Relax NG support for DocBook 5.0 documents.
  • Added W3C (ISO) Combined Entities FPI.
  • Added JavaHelp 1.1.3 and 2.0 FPIs.
  • Added *.dita, *.ditamap, *.hs, *jhm, *.jnlp, *.xht, and *.xhtml to list of XML extensions.
  • Added older Sun 1.0 and 1.1 JNLP FPIs.
  • Reads gzip’d and compress’d single-file documents.
  • Follows symbolic links on Unix-like systems.
  • Skips non-XML Apple property list files.
  • Fixed chdir errors that prevented command-line validation on Linux.
  • Fixed "undefined value" occurring for some XHTML a elements.
  • Normalized catalog processing.
  • Updated the documentation.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


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Developer:Robert Crews
Downloads:2,744
  - Version d/l:467
Development:HTML
License:Free
Date:20 Jan 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Jan 21 2009

TICE  Hmm ... you have to quit the app to check another document. If you have an entire website with many files this gets anoying.

OK, it's freeware, but there are better free apps out there, sorry to say.  
(Version 1.4.1)

praisebury
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Jan 21 2009

RCREWS  Thanks for the feedback. Validator is written to easily test multiple files at once. Drag the folder containing your Web site to the icon and Validator will evaluate all the XML on your site: XHTML, XSL, SVG, etc. Check out the readme for the details of what it tests, how it tests, and how it reports errors.  
(Version 1.4.1)

praisebury
+2

Feb 15 2008

AETNARIA  Doesn't do... anything.

Nothing happens when I try to drag files or folders onto the application icon, its open window, or the dock item.

The only thing I can do is click on the brightly-colored Quit button.  
(Version 1.3)

praisebury
0
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Jan 21 2009

RCREWS  Based on your feedback, version 1.4.1 appends a log to the report showing how many files it checked. I'm guessing you dragged a folder that did not contain any files with the recognized XML extensions. The version you reviewed shows a blank screen in this case. The readme describes how to add extensions to Validator's list of XML file name extensions. Thanks.  
(Version 1.4.1)

praisebury
0