If you can get the source then why bother putting it on a server, wrapping it
in SOAP and calling it remotely?
F
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:15, Sherzod Ruzmetov wrote:
> Here is what you should do.
>
> You need to download the source code of the actual validator that W3C uses
> and
> design a SOAP interface for the script. You can get this job done very
> easily with
> SOAP::Lite.
>
> You can then either contact the W3C validator team and get it hosted on
> their server,
> or host it on your own box.
>
> Then, you will need to write a very simply CPAN module using same
> SOAP::Lite,
> may be with about 20 lines of code to talk to your SOAP server.
>
> Final interface of your module may look something like:
>
> use W3C::Validator::Markup;
> my $val = new W3C::Validator::Markup();
> $val->validate($markup_as_string);
>
> if ( $val->is_valid() ) {
> print "Good job!\n";
> if ( $val->warnings ) {
> print "There are some minor warnings though\n";
> }
> } else {
> print "Nah, doesn't validate. Because...\n";
> while ( my $errobj = $val->errors ) {
> printf "Line %d, column: %d: %s\n\t",
> $errobj->line_number, $errobj->col_number, $errobj->line;
> print "Description: %s\n", $errobj->description()
> }
> }
>
> $val->finish(); # <-- free up the buffer
>
>
> --
> sherzod
>
>
> : -----Original Message-----
> : From: Struan Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> : Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:38 PM
> : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> : Subject: module to access w3c validator
> :
> :
> : Hi,
> :
> : I've been looking at getting at the W3C's HTML validation
> : service and
> : as there's nothing there that does what I want I was looking at
> : knocking something up.
> :
> : Having checked with the maintainer of W3C::LogValidator we came up
> : with WWW::Validator::W3CMarkup as a name.
> :
> : Does this sound reasonable to everyone out there and is there
> : something out there that I've missed?
> :
> : The other question is that I was also going to write a
> : version that
> : wraps up the XML output you can get from the Validator
> : but I'm really
> : not sure what to call it.
> :
> : Essentially the difference between the two will be that the basic
> : version will just let you know if the webpage passed or
> : failed. The
> : one that takes the XML will be able to return you a list
> : of the errors
> : in the document. WWW::Validator::W3CMarkup::Detailed was
> : on thought I
> : had but that seems a little clumsy.
> :
> : The logic in splitting these into two modules is so that
> : people don't
> : need to install a load of XML processing stuff unless
> : they really need
> : it.
> :
> : thanks
> :
> : Struan
> :
>
>
