Offline HTMLHelp.com Validator Changes

May 25, 2002

validate 1.0.4: fixed a bug where files whose names contained whitespace or shell metacharacters could not be validated.

December 19, 2001

validate 1.0.3:

• added a --emacs command-line option to produce output intended for parsing by Emacs
• added errors for references to non-existent IDs in attributes such as the headers attribute of the td element

November 22, 2001

lq-nsgmls 1.3.4.7: fixed a bug where a bad Host header was sent when fetching a URL whose host was given as an IP address.

August 4, 2001

lq-nsgmls 1.3.4.6: fixed a compile error when using gcc 2.96

April 29, 2001

lq-nsgmls 1.3.4.5: the Byte Order Mark is now accepted at the start of a UTF-8 document

April 19, 2001

lq-nsgmls 1.3.4.4: when fetching DTDs, we now accept any content-type rather than requiring text/*

December 25, 2000

validate 1.0.2: added support for XHTML Basic and ISO-HTML (be sure to grab the new sgml-lib tarball)

December 13, 2000

lq-nsgmls 1.3.4.3: HTTP redirects are now followed when fetching a DTD (thanks to Nick Kew for the code)

November 23, 2000

validate 1.0.1: fixed a security bug where temporary files were being created insecurely, allowing malicious local users to destroy known files writable by the user of "validate"

October 1, 2000

• validate 1.0: the script can now validate from standard input
• lq-nsgmls 1.3.4.2: re-worded common XML validation error messages to be more helpful