"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
.