Musings

Bulk Validator

Maybe everyone else knew about this, but I recently stumbled upon Validator, a bulk XML (including XHTML¹) validator. It features a GUI interface for MacOSX and Windows and a commandline tool for Linux.

Hand it a file, and it will validate it. Hand it a directory, and it will happily recurse through all subdirectories, validating every XML file it can find.

At least on my system, I needed to install XML::LibXML. For commandline use, I added

alias validate '/usr/bin/perl /Applications/Validator.app/Contents/Resources/script /Applications/Validator.app \!$'

to my .cshrc file. Now I can do things like

validate ~/Sites/blog/ | grep -v "Valid\|Well-formed"

Sweet!