htmlchek version 4.1, February 20 1995

htmlchek.awk, htmlchek.pl - Syntactically checks HTML 2.0 or 3.0 files for a number of possible errors; can do local link cross-reference checking, and generate a rudimentary reference-dependency map. Runs under awk or perl. Includes a number of supplemental utilities for HTML file processing.

Short table of contents

• README.40 -- Files, installation, new features.
  • README.41 -- Version 4.1 release update.
  • Obtaining Awk and Perl (Platforms for which one or the other is available include: MS-DOS, Macintosh, Windows-NT, VMS, Amiga, OS/2, Atari, MVS, and Unix source.)
• htmlchek 4.1 full documentation
• htmlsrpl.pl HTML-aware search-and-replace; uses literal strings or regexps, acts only inside or outside tags and/or specified elements.
• HyperText Mark-up Language Quick Reference
  • List of ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 characters represented as ampersand entities
  • The wisdom of Tom Neff and Eric Bohlman on HTML <IMG ...> tag ALT attributes
  • The wisdom of Tom Neff on image color reduction for WWW pages
• makemenu (Makes simple menu for HTML files, based on each file's <TITLE>; can also make a simple table of contents based on <H1>-<H6> headings.)
• xtraclnk.pl (Extracts links/anchors from HTML files; isolates text contained in <A> and <TITLE> elements.)
• dehtml (Removes all HTML markup, preliminary to spell check.)
• entify (Replaces high Latin-1 alphabetic characters with ampersand entities for safe 7-bit transport.)
• metachar (Trivial program to protect HTML/SGML metacharacters "&<>" in plain text that is to be included in an HTML file.)
• Somebody in Slovenia (that's next to Croatia) has set up an on-line validation form to check any URL with htmlchek.
• Other HTML validators (Yahoo)

Long table of contents

• htmlchek 4.1 full documentation (htmlchekprog.html)
  • README.40 -- Files, installation, new features.
    • README.41 -- Version 4.1 release update.
    • Obtaining htmlchek
    • Obtaining Awk and Perl
  • Typical Command Lines
  • Description
    • HTML Error Messages
  • Command-line Options
    • Output Options
    • Cross-reference Checking Output Options
    • Cross-reference Checking URL Prefix Options
  • Cross-Reference Checking
    • External Cross-Reference Checking
  • Language Customization Options
    • Language Extensions (Arena/HTML3, Netscape)
    • Tag definition options
    • Other tag behavior options
    • General parsing configuration options
    • Configuration File
  • Summary of htmlchek commmand-line options
  • Supplemental HTML-file processing programs: dehtml, entify, and metachar
    • dehtml (Removes all HTML markup, preliminary to spell check.)
    • entify (Replaces high Latin-1 alphabetic characters with ampersand entities for safe 7-bit transport.)
    • metachar (Trivial program to protect HTML/SGML metacharacters "&<>" in plain text that is to be included in an HTML file.)
    • Supplemental link extraction programs: makemenu and xtraclnk.pl
      • makemenu (Makes simple menu for HTML files, based on each file's <TITLE>; can also make a simple table of contents based on <H1>-<H6> headings.)
      • xtraclnk.pl (Extracts links/anchors from HTML files; isolates text contained in <A> and <TITLE> elements.)
    • Operating System Dependencies
      • Unix (Posix 1003.2) shell scripts
      • Sub-directory hierarchy cross-reference checking
      • MS-DOS
    • Limitations
    • Author
      • Common Problems
      • Meaningless Bitmap Graphic
• README.40 -- Files, installation, new features
  • README.41 -- Version 4.1 release update.
• Obtaining htmlchek (htmlckftp.html)
• Obtaining Awk and Perl (awk-perl.html)
  • Availability of Awk
    • Gawk source distribution
    • Precompiled Gawk binaries, other Awk versions, etc.
  • Availability of Perl
    • On-line Perl Man Pages (documentation)
    • Other Perl links
• HyperText Mark-up Language Quick Reference (htmlqref.html)
  • General:
  • Syntax
  • Overall Document Tags
  • Head Tags
  • Body tags
    • High-level tags
    • Lists
    • Hypertext Anchors/Links
    • Inline images
      • Tom Neff and Eric Bohlman on HTML <IMG ...> tag ALT attributes
      • Tom Neff on image color reduction for WWW pages
    • Text flow
    • Logical styles
    • Fonts
  • Special Characters (Entities)
    • List of ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 characters represented as ampersand entities (latin1.html)
  • Comments
  • URL's
  • Forms
• htmlsrpl HTML-aware search and replace version 1.11 (htmlsrpl.html)

  • htmlsrpl.pl - HTML-aware search-and-replace program, with either literal strings or regular expressions. Acts either only outside HTML/SGML tags, or only within tags; can be restricted to operate only within and/or only outside specified elements; can also upper-case tag names. Runs under perl.

  • Typical use
  • Basic command-line options
  • Element inclusion/exclusion command-line options
  • Regexp command-line options
  • Command-line options that affect what is matched against
  • Uppercasing option
  • Final status message
  • Summary
  • Limitations
  • Author
• Slovenian on-line validation form to check any URL with htmlchek.
• Other HTML validators (Yahoo)
• Other stuff in this directory (nothing to do with htmlchek).