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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
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<title>W3C Log Validator</title>
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<meta name="Keywords" content="qa, quality assurance, conformance, validity, test suite, log, validator, html, css" />
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<meta name="Description" content="W3C QA - A comprehensive, step-by-step validation tool for webmasters" />
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<meta name="DC.Subject" lang="en" content="log, validator, html, css" />
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<meta name="DC.Title" lang="en" content="Log Validator" />
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<meta name="DC.Description.Abstract" lang="en" content="A comprehensive, step-by-step validation tool for webmasters" />
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<meta name="DC.Date.Created" content="2002-06-24" />
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<meta name="DC.Language" scheme="RFC1766" content ="en" />
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<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Olivier Thereaux" />
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<meta name="DC.Publisher" content="W3C - World Wide Web Consortium - http://www.w3.org" />
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<meta name="DC.Rights" content="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents-19990405" />
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<style type="text/css" media="all">
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@import "/QA/2006/01/blogstyle.css";
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dt {font-weight: bold; }
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<body>
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<div id="banner">
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<h1 id="title">
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img height="48" alt="W3C" id="logo" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home_nb" /></a>
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Log Validator
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</h1>
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</div>
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<ul class="navbar" id="menu">
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<li><a href="Screenshots/" title="See The Log Validator in action">Screenshots</a></li>
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<li><a href="Manual" title="Log Validator Manual">Manual</a></li>
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<li><a href="Manual-Get">Download</a></li>
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<li><a href="./#participate">Feedback / Participate</a></li>
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<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
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<p id="formbox"><input type="text" size="15" class="textfield" name="q" accesskey="E" maxlength="255" /> <input type="submit" class="submitfield" value="Search" id="goButton" name="sa" accesskey="G" /> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="T:black;LW:72;ALC:#ff3300;L:http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home;LC:#000099;LH:48;BGC:white;AH:left;VLC:#660066;GL:0;AWFID:0b9847e42caf283e;" /><input type="hidden" id="searchW3C" name="sitesearch" checked="checked" value="www.w3.org/QA" /><input type="hidden" name="domains" value="www.w3.org/QA" /></p>
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<div id="main"><!-- This DIV encapsulates everything in this page - necessary for the positioning -->
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<div id="jumpbar">
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<h2>About the W3C Log Validator</h2>
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<p><strong>The Log Validator combines a Server Log analysis engine with batch validation, link
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checking and other quality-oriented processing, for step-by-step improvement and maintenance of
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Web Site Quality</strong>.</p>
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<h3>More W3C Software</h3>
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<p>W3C develops many more software tools. See the other <a href="../">Quality Tools (validators, etc)</a>,
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or the list of all <a href="/Status">W3C Open Source Software</a>.</p>
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<h3 id="contact">Contact</h3>
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<p>
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<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">Validator(s) mailing-list at W3C</a>.
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</p>
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</div>
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<h2>Log Validator mini-FAQ</h2>
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<dl>
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<dt>What is this?</dt>
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<dd><p>A free, simple and step-by-step tool to improve dramatically the quality of your website. Find
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the most popular invalid documents, broken links, etc., and prioritize the work to get them fixed.</p></dd>
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<dt>Who should use this?</dt>
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<dd><p>Anyone writing or maintaining websites, especially large ones.</p></dd>
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<dt>Where is the documentation?</dt>
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<dd><p>All the information on how to use this tool is in the <a href="Manual">Manual</a>.</p></dd>
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<dt id="download">Where do I get it?</dt>
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<dd><p>See the <a href="Manual-Get">download instructions</a>.</p></dd>
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<dt>I'm a developer, can I help? ・ Where can I report bugs?</dt>
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<dd><p>The tool is open source, developers are welcome to help, and bug reports are welcome, too.
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See <a href="#participate">below</a> for details on participation and feedback.</p></dd>
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</dl>
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<p>
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Still unclear what exactly the tool does?</p>
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<ul>
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<li> <strong>See</strong> the <a href="Screenshots/">Screenshots and examples of use</a>, </li>
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<li><strong>Read</strong> <a href="Testimonials">what others say about it</a>,</li>
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<li>or simply read on for more info.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="about">The "Philosophy" of the LogValidator</h2>
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<h3>Step-by-step quality</h3>
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<p>
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Log Validator is a web server log analysis tool with focus on the quality of Web documents.
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Thanks to a modular, extensible design, the Log Validator can help Web authors find the most
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popular content on their web site that matches particular criteria.</p>
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<p>
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The Log Validator was first written with Validation (HTML, etc.) in
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mind : it can thus help web content managers find and fix the most
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frequently accessed invalid documents on their Web site, acting as a
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comprehensive, <a href="/QA/2002/09/Step-by-step">step-by-step</a>
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validation tool.</p>
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<h3 id="whatitdoes">What this tool does (and does not)</h3>
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<p>This tool takes a web server's last logs and processes it through <em>validation
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modules</em>. Those <em>validation modules</em> check the most popular documents'
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validity for a certain technology . The default module is HTML validation, but there
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are others available (see the <a href="API#modules-list">list of modules</a> for
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supported technologies).</p> <p>The (X)HTML validation module, for example, helps you
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find, among the most popular pages on your site, which are invalid, and thus tell you
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which (invalid) pages you should fix first. This is a step-by-step process, you can
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set up this tool to run every week, and painlessly fix only a few documents at the
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time. Eventually, you will have fixed your whole site, or at least the most important
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parts of it. (see also <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/LogValidator/Manual#tips">
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tips</a> for the HTML module)</p>
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<h2 id="bgd">A bit of History</h2>
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<p>Since 1994 and the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1994Jul/0015">
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first HTML validator service</a>, there has been a way to check the validity of one's
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webpage with regards to web standards (HTML, CSS, ...). Other services, like
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/">HTML Tidy</a> allow you to
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(semi-)automatically fix invalid documents...</p>
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<p>This tool is here to make your life as a webmaster, web designer, web developer even
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easier, by telling you which documents you should fix in priority.</p>
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<p>It has first been developed by <a href="/People/Gerald/">Gerald Oskoboiny</a> as
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an internal W3C tool (yes, even at W3C we create invalid HTML sometimes) to check the
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HTML validity of the webpages on <a href="http://www.w3.org/">the W3C website</a>, then
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<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2001Sep/0031.html">released its code</a>
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in september 2001.</p>
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<p>In 2002, the <a href="/QA">Quality Assurance</a> team at W3C decided to re-write
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it as a modular, portable, and easy-to-use tool for webmasters. Its development continues, mostly
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with the addition of new processing modules making the Log Validator a very useful and versatile
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Web Quality analysis tool.</p>
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<h2 id="participate">How to Participate</h2>
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<h3>bug reports</h3>
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<p>Anyone is welcome to provide bug reports, bug fixes, improvement and
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patches, ideas, etc. Submissions should be sent to the
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<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">
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<code>www-validator</code> mailing list</a>
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(<a href="mailto:www-validator@w3.org">send mail</a>).
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Please note that any mail sent to this list will be <strong>publicly
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archived and available</strong>, do not send information you wouldn't want to see
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distributed, such as private data.
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</p>
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<p><a href="Manual-Get#get-dev">Source code</a> for this tool is available under
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the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software.html">
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W3C Software Licence</a>.</p>
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<h3>Additional modules</h3>
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<p>You are welcome to develop and submit additional modules (learn more about the
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<a href="Manual-Modules">Modules creation documentation</a> and
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<a href="API">API</a> for the modules).</p>
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<h3>Translations</h3>
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<p>Translation of the documentation is welcome. If you translate these
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documents, please contact us so that we can include your translation to
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the alternate versions of this manual. (See more about translations of
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W3C documents).</p>
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<h3 id="thanks">Acknowlegements</h3>
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<p>Many thanks to...</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Karl Dubost, for his ideas, his patience when testing early versions,
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and continuous help on this project.</li>
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<li>Terje Bless, for his coding improvement proposals</li>
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<li>Ville Skytta, for patches, good ideas and suggestions</li>
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<li>Aaron Straup Cope, for his knowledge of all things Perl</li>
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<li>Slaven Rezic, for patches and bug reports</li>
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<li>... </li>
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</ul>
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<address class="author">
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<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
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src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" height="31" width="88"
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alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" /></a> Created Date: 2002-07-24 by <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/">Olivier Thereaux</a><br />
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Last modified $Date: 2007/08/31 00:08:12 $ by $Author: ot $</address>
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