"validate", the Offline HTMLHelp.com Validator, checks the syntax of HTML documents using an SGML parser and reports any errors. XHTML documents may also be validated using an XML parser. Usage: validate [OPTION] [FILE...] The program's options are as follows: --xml indicate that the documents to be validated are XML documents. Known document types, such as HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, are automatically handled by "validate". For unknown document types, "validate" will assume XHTML/XML if this option is specified and HTML/SGML otherwise. --charset=ENCODING force ENCODING to be used as the character encoding when validating HTML/SGML documents. This option is ignored when validating XHTML/XML documents, which are assumed to use XML rules for specifying the character encoding. The following encodings (case-insensitive) are supported: "utf-8", "iso-10646-ucs-2", "euc-jp", "euc-kr", "gb2312", "shift_jis", "big5", and "iso-8859-n" where n is between 1 and 9 inclusive. --verbose turn on verbose output messages --emacs use an output format intended for parsing by Emacs -h, --help display this help and exit -v, --version output version information and exit Any number of files may be specified after the options. With no FILE, standard input is read. "validate" is written by Liam Quinn and is based on the WDG HTML Validator, an online validation service available at .