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Check HTML With CSE HTML Validator Lite

Martin Brinkmann — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:39:03 +0000

It is very important that webmasters validate their websites by checking the html code that is produced on the front end of the site. This can be done with online tools like the markup validation tool of the W3C website or offline tools such as the CSE HTML Validator Lite. The HTML validator can be installed on a computer system running the Windows operating system to check html pages for errors and other problems.

Webmasters need a local html file so that it can be loaded into the software program. The easiest way to achieve this is to go to the website that should be validated, view the source code of it and save it as html on the computer system.

This html file can then be loaded and analyzed in the software. The html code will then be validated by the software. It will immediately jump to the first error in the code and link it to the errors and comments in the footer area. This makes it very easy to understand (in most cases) why something is not right with the code. It is possible to edit the html code right in the HTML Validator to correct the errors that have been discovered. It is still necessary to correct the error on the web as well obviously if the html code has been downloaded from the web.

The program comes with a few additional functions that help in certain cases. It is for example possible to convert all tags of the html document to lowercase, find and replace code in the html file or to use a spell checker.

CSE HTML Validator Lite can be downloaded from the developer’s website. It is available for all Windows operating systems including Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Grab Text from all Files in a Directory

Martin Brinkmann — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:20:13 +0000

The title of this article might be a little confusing at first glance. Why would someone want to scan files in a directory for certain strings and output them in a new file ? Few ideas come to my mind why this could be useful. Imagine that you were surfing a website with lots of images that you liked very much. You could download those images manually or use the software Win Text File Patch to scan all files in your browsers cache for a certain string and output them in a new file.

Afterwards you would import that new list in a download manager and download all images from there. Sounds easier ? It is, indeed. This is of course not only useful for file downloads but also for any other type of information found in files. Password lists come to my mind, proxy lists, any kind of list actually.

Win Text File Patch has a size of only 84K which is amazing if you consider what this application is doing. To work with the software you need to edit a few entries. You specify the source directory, the file types that you want scanned, a destination directory and file and of course the software should scan the files for.

The text part requires some knowledge of how the information are presented in the files. If you were looking for images for instance you would have to know that they begin with the html tag and end with ">. It begins to get problematic if the website in question did use relative links and not absolute ones because of the missing url.

Win Text File Patch offers a way to replace the information that has been found which is exactly what we would need here. This can be a very useful software for several users.

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