Much has been made of standards compliance in modern Web browsers. Less is made of the responsibity Web authors have to deliver correct mark-up for these programs, though only valid mark-up is eligible for standards-compliant Processing. Typical validation tools tediously operate on one file at a time, often through a Web or editor interface. Validator easily checks one file or a thousand. It efficiently assures all your XML is ready for your workflow.
Features
Validator includes the following features:
* Drag-and-drop interface.
* Terse, text-based validation report.
* Validates common XML files without need for an Internet connection.
* Native support for DocBook, DITA, TEI, SMIL, MathML, SVG, WAP/WML, and more.
* Provides several XHTML correctness checks beyond simple validation.
* Optional command-line interface.
* Automatically skips non-XML files.
* Simple "delete it and it's gone" uninstall.
* Drag-and-drop installation on Mac OS X.
Benefits
Validator provides the following benefits:
* Works the way you work. Put the Validator icon on your Desktop or anywhere that's convenient.
* Can check thousands of files with a single drag-and-drop action or command-line statement.
* At-a-glance report quickly shows you if you have any XML errors, as well as where and what they are.
* Validation reports are easy to include in other documents, such as mail messages.
* Can validate XML files before your source-control system commits them to your repository. For example, Validator easily integrates into a CVS commitinfo script or a Subversion pre-commit hook.
* Integrates with other XML Tools to simplify your XML workflow.
