W3C Validator offline
The validator of the WWW consortium W3C is the number one address for validating the correctness of one's HTML und co. You can install it locally on your pc, which is a very interesting option for those who use modems to access the internet or work on laptops. Coming from the world of Linux, the validator posed some difficulties for blechtrottel brodaktschns when we tried to implement it on a Windows system. Eventually, these difficulties could be overcome. Being of the altruistic kind blechtrottel brodaktschns do not intend to keep the results from our visitors and therefore offer a short howto, since most similar pages on the net refer to older versions of the validator. These instructions work with Validator versions 0.6.6 and 0.6.7, the most recent is 0.7.0 from 8/8/2005
Shopping List
If you want to run the validator under Windows you need the following:
- a web browser, in our case Apache2
- a Perl for Windows, we chose ActivePerl 5.8.0 from ActiveState
- an SGML parser, either the original OpenSP 1.5.1 or its predecessor SP by Jim Clark
- and of course: the W3C validator plus recent DTD libraries
All software listed above is available for free.
