Re: recommendation for website HTML validation tool?

[Danny R. Faught]

I've catalogued a number of freeware link checkers in my research for 
Open Testware Reviews.  The raw list is below, actually it's all the 
tools I know about that do any kind of static analysis on web pages.  My 
subscribers haven't asked me to write about this topic yet, so I haven't 
tried to further characterize the tools in this category.

I've been frustrated with online services like Link Valet, because they 
won't check a whole page if it contains a lot of links.  You probably 
want to use a tool that you can install locally.  Or if you need to fill 
out forms to get to the dynamic content, you may have to use a 
full-blown http functional test tool (not listed here) and record the 
values to put into the forms.

AccVerify SE for FrontPage	http://www.hisoftware.com/msacc/
Big Brother	http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/brother.html.en
Bobby	http://www.cast.org/bobby/
Checky Plug	http://checky.mozdev.org/
CSE HTML Validator Lite	http://www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/
CSSCheck	http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/
demoroniser	http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/
Doctor HTML	http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
ht://Check	http://htcheck.sourceforge.net/
InSite	http://insite.sourceforge.net/
Jenu	http://jenu.sourceforge.net/
JSpider	http://j-spider.sourceforge.net/
JTidy	http://lempinen.net/sami/jtidy/
Link Page Generator	http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkpagegen/
Link Valet	http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/valet/
LinkChecker	http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/
LinkVerify	http://link-verify.sourceforge.net/index.en.html
Meta Medic	http://northernwebs.com/set/setsimjr.html
RiadaLinx	http://www.riada.com/
Scout	http://www.joedog.org/scout/index.shtml
Tidy   	http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
Tidy Online	http://valet.htmlhelp.com/tidy/
W3C CSS Validation Service	http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
W3C HTML Validation Service	http://validator.w3.org/
W3C RDF Validation Service	http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/
WDG HTML Validator	http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer	http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html
Web Page Purifier	http://www.delorie.com/web/purify.html
Web Static Analyzer Tool (WebSAT) 
http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/WebTools/WebSAT/overview.html
Weblint  	http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~mimasa/jweblint/
Weblint Gateway	http://ejk.cso.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/weblint
WiDGets	http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/widgets/
Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM)	http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
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Danny R. Faught
Tejas Software Consulting
http://tejasconsulting.com/