Best stand alone link and code validators

DW just doesn't do it for me.

[jpalmer]

Greeetings and Gidday from Downunder folks,

Using DreamweaverMX to create sites and update pages created in Homesite and earlier, graduating from on-page code to css, and updating from 3.2 to 4.0 and xml transitional, but just don't like the way DW checks links and validates code.

As a result, I find myself using HS (which has it's own limitations) to double check it, which seems to me to be conterproductive.

Can anyone please recommend a good stand alone link validator and code validator? (And no, please don't send me off to WC3.org, I know about those. I want 'em on my desktop thanks.)

Thanks in advance,

Cheers and Hooroo
JP

[davidpbrown]

Xenu's Link Sleuth - xenu.exe is the best link validator I've seen,
and it's freeware.

As for code validator I don't know better than the W3C.. I've moved to xml headers and xhtml1.1 which shows up errors when played in opera.

dpb
20-17 ;)

[jpalmer]

Thanks David,

much appreciated mate!

cheers
JP

[victor]

I second Xenu. It's great and free!

For HTML desktop validation, I use CSE HTML validator. Not so free, but a valuable tool:

[htmlvalidator.com...]