: If you can get the source then why bother putting it on a
: server, wrapping it
: in SOAP and calling it remotely?
For the same reason why one would want to write a library to access W3C.
:
: 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
: > :
: >
: >
:
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