Re^5: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing

Mine verify doctypes and even convert from a doctype to another (for instance from html 4.01 transitional to strict, or to xhtml 1.0 strict, etc). It also corrects character encodings IIRC.

Tidy does some nice things, but it doesn't do the checks that the W3C validator does - it's not doing a full parse of the HTML based on the docs.

For example the W3C Markup Validation Service will catch the error in this broken XHTML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-s
+trict.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 
    <head> 
        <title>A random test file</title> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
        <P>Oops - XHTML tags must be in lower case</p> 
    </body> 
</html>
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but tidy thinks it's fine:

% tidy -e test.html
Info: Doctype given is "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
Info: Document content looks like XHTML 1.0 Strict
No warnings or errors were found.


To learn more about HTML Tidy see http://tidy.sourceforge.net
Please send bug reports to html-tidy@w3.org
HTML and CSS specifications are available from http://www.w3.org/
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I'm not saying tidy isn't useful. It's a great tool from basic checks and fixes on HTML. But it doesn't validate (X)HTML.

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Re^6: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing by wazoox (Prior) on Jul 24, 2005 at 17:12 UTC
Alright. However "tidy" will correct the error with `tidy test.html` or `tidy -i test.html`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^7: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 25, 2005 at 10:19 UTC
Alright. However "tidy" will correct the error with tidy test.html or tidy -i test.html. Yup. Tidy is an excellent tool for fixing many mistakes in HTML. Just not a good one for strict validation.	[reply]


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