I’d like to enable the use of Validator.nu as a RESTful Web service. To this end, I have designed a Validator.nu-native XML response format.
There is also a JSON format for review.
I’d appreciate comments on the format—especially from people who can foresee wanting to write clients.
Comments on this blog seem to be broken right now. Comments can be sent directly to [email protected] or the the implementors mailing list.
Comments are welcome here.
There is now an open-source implementation of the HTML5 parsing algorithm in Java 5: the Validator.nu HTML Parser. The parser can be used as a drop-in replacement for the XML parser in applications that use SAX, DOM or XOM APIs to read XHTML 1.x content with an XML parser.
My (so far incomplete) HTML5 conformance checker has been Open Source / Free Software all along. However, due to the lack of a publicly-accessible version control system and due to numerous dependencies, the codebase hasn’t really been approachable.
This has now changed. The code is in an anonymously accessible CVS repository. There is also a single script that you can check out and run. The script will take care of downloading dependencies, building the software and running it. The instructions are on the about page.
The conformance checker technology preview has been stuck in a time warp for a while, because I have been writing about it instead of working on it.
I am happy to report that the schema layer has now undergone a major update. (The Java parts have the same bugs as before. I have not forgotten about those. They just are not what this update is about.)