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Follow the steps below to build, test, and run the checker such that you can open http://localhost:8888/ in a Web browser to use the checker Web UI.
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Make sure you have git, python, and JDK 5 or later installed.
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Set the
JAVA_HOME
environment variable:export JAVA_HOME=@@/PATH/TO/JDK/ON/YOUR/SYSTEM@@
For example:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
(older Ubuntu)export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64
(newer Ubuntu)export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
(Mac OS X)
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Create a working directory:
git clone https://github.com/validator/validator.git
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Change into your working directory:
cd validator
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Start the build script:
python ./build/build.py all; python ./build/build.py all
Important: Yes, you must run the script twice the first time you build— to work around known issues that cause it to fail to complete when run from scratch in a fresh working directory. For subsequent builds you only have to run it once. And note that the first time you run it, it will need time to download ~300MB of dependencies.
The steps above will build, test, and run the checker such that you can open http://localhost:8888/ in a Web browser to use the checker Web UI.
Use python ./build/build.py --help
to see command-line options for controlling the
behavior of the script, as well as build-target names you can call separately; e.g.:
python ./build/build.py build
(to build only)python ./build/build.py build test
(to build and test)python ./build/build.py run
(to run only)
If you’d like to contribute a bug fix or feature enhancement but aren’t sure where in the code to get started, here’s a brief annotated overview of the repository contents:
build
- scripts for building, testing, and running the checkerhtmlparser
- (submodule) HTML parserjing-trang
- (submodule) RelaxNG engineresources
- config files, caching-related catalogs, and some example codeschema
- HTML+SVG+MathML RelaxNG schemas (used with jing in the checker backend)site
- JS & CSS for the checker frontend + code for generating the frontend HTMLsrc/nu/validator
checker
- non-schema checkers;TableChecker
,schematronequiv/Assertions
, …client
- various clients; e.g.,SimpleCommandLineValidator
,TestRunner
collections
- sorting of collections (utility code)datatype
- checking microsyntax of attribute values (datatype library)gnu/xml/aelfred2
- processing XML (XML parser)io
- variety of *InputStream classes,DataUri
, related exception classesjson
- SAX-inspired streaming interface for writing JSON (utility code)localentities
- fetching resources from local cache;LocalCacheEntityResolver
messages
- handling/emitting validation messages;MessageEmitterAdapter
, etc.servlet
- core service logic;VerifierServletTransaction
, etc.source
- handling/emitting "show source" output;SourceHandler
&SourceCode
spec
- parsing the HTML spec & emitting spec excerpts in validation messagesvalidation
- entry point for 3rd-party code to use;SimpleDocumentValidator
xml
- utility code of various kinds
tests
- (submodule) valid/invalid HTML docs for (regression) testing the checker