Welcome to the XML Tools locker. It is maintained by Information Systems and EMCC. Please send mail to lcs and ccount if you have any comments or questions.
The library is arranged according to the current Athena standard for software lockers. All platform-dependent files are under arch/@sys, sources under src, etc. There should eventually be some examples in the examples subdirectory.
HTML Tidy is a free utility from the World Wide Web Consortium:
When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities.
Tidy is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your attention things that you need to work on yourself. Each item found is listed with the line number and column so that you can see where the problem lies in your markup. Tidy won't generate a cleaned up version when there are problems that it can't be sure of how to handle. These are logged as "errors" rather than "warnings".
With the -asxml flag, it generates XHTML files from HTML files.
For more info see the HTML Tidy pages, or use html-tidy -help
ml-check is a locally-written program which is a command-line
interface to the programs behind the World Wide Web Consortium validation service. It uses James Clark's nsgmls
program from his SP SGML
system. All SP progams are also available: nsgmls,
spam, sx, sgmlnorm, and
spent.
ml-check checks one or more files or URLs for
validity. If applied to a single file or URL, the
-view_report flag may be used to view the HTML-formatted
report on the document's structure, parse tree, and any errors found.
Xalan Java XML parser and processor. See the local copy of the documentation
For more information on XML, see the XML locker.