validator.w3.org

is there a mirror site?

[Romeo]

the validator.w3.org seems to be down at the moment, or at least unreachable from Europe.
Is there a mirror site?

Regards,
R.

[Romeo]

ah well, for the first part of my last msg, the w3.org is up and running again.
Would be nice to know about alternate sites, though.

Regards,
R.

[DaScribbler]

Here's an alternate, which works well

[htmlhelp.com...]

and their CSS validator

[htmlhelp.com...]

[Romeo]

thank you for this interesting link, DaScribbler.
However, my pages now perfectly validate on w3.org but get errors on the wdg-validator ... :-(
It's the <br /> type of tags that the wdg doesn't like in a "HTML 4.01 Transitional" document.

Regards,
R.

[g1smd]

Closing tags like <br /> are ONLY for XHTML documents.

Do not use that in plain old HTML 4.01 Transitional etc.

[ergophobe]

Here's an alternate, which works well

[htmlhelp.com...]

Has this been updated? Last I checked (admittedly a long time ago, they didn't do XHTML). In any case, I rarely use the only validators. I use the same engine as the W3C and just use it locally. The output is less pretty, but no worries about server load.

For a quick how-to on creating your own validator, see

[ktmatu.com...]

Tom

[RammsteinNicCage]

Can the do-it-yourself one validate an entire site or just a single file at a time? And does it work with XP?

Jennifer

[ergophobe]

One page at a time. Since most things I do are dynamic and have the potential for 1000s of pages based on a few templates, I would not want to validate the site.

I'm sure you could write a batch file that would make it do a whole site though, based on a recursive drill-down through directories.

It should work with XP. I'm sure you could figure out how to do the same with *nix as well, since I'm sure SP is available for those OSes.

[g1smd]

At least validate a small selection of each of the pages generated by each template. If an error is found, hopefully just a small edit in one template is all that is required to fix it all.

[ergophobe]

I do validate a selection of pages. Of course, the real problem would be an user-generated markup submitted through forms. That's the thing you can't control for if you choose to allow it.

I just rarely want to validate a site because if I validate a few pages generated by each template, I should basically have validated the site. If I validate the "site", I will get the same error 6500 times (i.e. every time the template is invoked).

Then it's just a matter of validating the dynamic content as it is created, something that may or may not be possible.

Tom