# $Id: W3C.pm 644 2007-01-13 15:27:20Z struan $ package WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C; use strict; use base qw( Class::Accessor ); use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request::Common 'POST'; use URI::Escape; use WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C::Error; use WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C::Warning; __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors( qw( http_timeout validator_uri proxy ua _http_method is_valid num_errors uri _content _output ) ); use vars qw( $VERSION $VALIDATOR_URI $HTTP_TIMEOUT ); $VERSION = 0.17; $VALIDATOR_URI = 'http://validator.w3.org/check'; $HTTP_TIMEOUT = 30; =head1 NAME WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C - Access the W3Cs online HTML validator =head1 SYNOPSIS use WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C; my $v = WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C->new( detailed => 1 ); if ( $v->validate("http://www.example.com/") ) { if ( $v->is_valid ) { printf ("%s is valid\n", $v->uri); } else { printf ("%s is not valid\n", $v->uri); foreach $error ( @{$v->errors} ) { printf("%s at line %d\n", $error->msg, $error->line); } } } else { printf ("Failed to validate the website: %s\n", $v->validator_error); } =head1 DESCRIPTION WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C provides access to the W3C's online Markup validator. As well as reporting on whether a page is valid it also provides access to a detailed list of the errors and where in the validated document they occur. =head1 METHODS =head2 new my $v = WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C->new(); Returns a new instance of the WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C object. There are various options that can be set when creating the Validator object like so: my $v = WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C->new( http_timeout => 20 ); =over 4 =item validator_uri The URI of the validator to use. By default this accesses the W3Cs validator at http://validator.w3.org/check. If you have a local installation of the validator ( recommended if you wish to do a lot of testing ) or wish to use a validator at another location then you can use this option. Please note that you need to use the full path to the validator cgi. =item ua The user agent to use. Should be an LWP::UserAgent object or something that provides the same interface. If this argument is provided, the C and C arguments are ignored. =item http_timeout How long (in seconds) to wait for the HTTP connection to timeout when contacting the validator. By default this is 30 seconds. =item detailed This fetches the XML response from the validator in order to provide information for the errors method. You should set this to true if you intend to use the errors method. =item proxy An HTTP proxy to use when communicating with the validation service. =item output Controls which output format is used. Can be either xml or soap12. At the moment the default is XML as this is the only one supported by the Validator. However in the future it is moving to using SOAP for the detailed reporting. The default will always work so unless you're using a development version of the Validator you can safely ignore this. =back =cut sub new { my $ref = shift; my $class = ref $ref || $ref; my $obj = {}; bless $obj, $class; $obj->_init(@_); return $obj; } sub _init { my $self = shift; my %args = @_; $self->http_timeout( $args{http_timeout} || $HTTP_TIMEOUT ); $self->validator_uri( $args{validator_uri} || $VALIDATOR_URI ); $self->ua( $args{ua} ); $self->_http_method( $args{detailed} ? 'GET' : 'HEAD' ); $self->_output( $args{output} || 'xml' ); $self->proxy( $args{proxy} || '' ); } =head2 validate $v->validate( 'http:://www.example.com/' ); Validate a URI. Returns 0 if the validation fails (e.g if the validator cannot be reached), otherwise 1. =head2 validate_file $v->validate_file( './file.html' ); Validate a file by uploading it to the W3C Validator. NB This has only been tested on a Linux box so may not work on non unix machines. =head2 validate_markup $v->validate_markup( $markup ); Validate a scalar containing HTML. =cut sub validate_file { my $self = shift; my $file = shift; return $self->validator_error("You need to supply a file to validate") unless $file; return $self->_validate( { file => $file } ); } sub validate_markup { my $self = shift; my $markup = shift; return $self->validator_error("You need to supply markup to validate") unless $markup; return $self->_validate( { markup => $markup } ); } sub validate { my $self = shift; my $uri = shift; return $self->validator_error("You need to supply a URI to validate") unless $uri; return $self->validator_error("You need to supply a URI scheme (e.g http)") unless $uri =~ m(^.*?://); return $self->_validate( $uri ); } sub _validate { my $self = shift; my $uri = shift; my $uri_orig = $uri; my $ua = $self->ua; if ( ! $ua ) { $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( agent => __PACKAGE__ . "/$VERSION", timeout => $self->http_timeout ); if ( $self->proxy ) { $ua->proxy( 'http', $self->proxy ); } } my $request = $self->_get_request( $uri ); my $response = $ua->request($request); if ( $response->is_success ) # not an error, we could contact the server { # set both valid and error number according to response my ( $valid, $valid_err_num ) = $self->_parse_validator_response($response); $self->_content( $response->content() ) if $self->_http_method() !~ /HEAD/; # we know the validator has been able to (in)validate if # $self->valid is not NULL if ( $valid and $valid_err_num ) { $self->is_valid(0); $self->num_errors($valid_err_num); $self->uri($uri_orig); return 1; } elsif ( !defined $valid ) { return $self->validator_error('Not a W3C Validator or Bad URI'); } elsif ( $valid =~ /\bvalid\b/i ) { $self->is_valid(1); $self->num_errors($valid_err_num); $self->uri($uri_orig); return 1; } return $self->validator_error( 'Did not get a sensible result from the Validator'); } else { return $self->validator_error('Could not contact validator'); } } =head2 is_valid $v->is_valid; Returns true (1) if the URI validated otherwise 0. =head2 uri $v->uri(); Returns the URI of the last page on which validation succeeded. =head2 num_errors $num_errors = $v->num_errors(); Returns the number of errors that the validator encountered. =head2 errors $errors = $v->errors(); foreach my $err ( @$errors ) { printf("line: %s, col: %s\n\terror: %s\n", $err->line, $err->col, $err->msg); } Returns an array ref of WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C::Error objects. These have line, col and msg methods that return a line number, a column in that line and the error that occurred at that point. Note that you need XML::XPath for this to work and you must have initialised WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C with the detailed option. If you have not set the detailed option a warning will be issued, the detailed option will be set and a second request made to the validator in order to fetch the required information. If there was a problem processing the detailed information then this method will return 0. =head2 warnings ONLY available with the SOAP output from the development Validator at the moment. $warnings = $c->warnings(); Works exactly the same as errors only returns an array ref of WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C::Warning objects. In all other respects it's the same. =cut sub errors { my $self = shift; return undef unless $self->num_errors(); unless ( $self->_http_method() eq 'GET' ) { warn "You should set detailed when initalising if you intend to use the errors method"; $self->_http_method( 'GET' ); $self->validate( $self->uri() ); } my @errs; eval { require XML::XPath; }; if ($@) { warn "XML::XPath must be installed in order to get detailed errors"; return undef; } my $xp = XML::XPath->new( xml => $self->_content() ); if ( $self->_output eq 'xml' ) { if ( ! $xp->findnodes('/result') ) { return $self->validator_error( 'Result format does not appear to be XML' ); } my @messages = $xp->findnodes('/result/messages/msg'); foreach my $msg (@messages) { my $err = WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C::Error->new({ line => $msg->getAttribute('line'), col => $msg->getAttribute('col'), msg => $msg->getChildNode(1)->getValue(), }); push @errs, $err; } } else { # assume soap... if ( ! $xp->findnodes('/env:Envelope') ) { return $self->validator_error( 'Result format does not appear to be SOAP' ); } my @messages = $xp->findnodes( '/env:Envelope/env:Body/m:markupvalidationresponse/m:errors/m:errorlist/m:error' ); foreach my $msg ( @messages ) { my $err = WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C::Error->new({ line => $xp->find( './m:line', $msg )->get_node(1)->getChildNode(1)->getValue, col => $xp->find( './m:col', $msg )->get_node(1)->getChildNode(1)->getValue, msg => $xp->find( './m:message', $msg )->get_node(1)->getChildNode(1)->getValue, }); push @errs, $err; } } return \@errs; } sub warnings { my $self = shift; unless ( $self->_http_method() eq 'GET' ) { warn "You should set detailed when initalising if you intend to use the errors method"; $self->_http_method( 'GET' ); $self->validate( $self->uri() ); } eval { require XML::XPath; }; if ($@) { warn "XML::XPath must be installed in order to get warnings"; return undef; } my $xp = XML::XPath->new( xml => $self->_content() ); my @warnings; if ( $self->_output eq 'soap12' ) { if ( ! $xp->findnodes('/env:Envelope') ) { return $self->validator_error( 'Result format does not appear to be SOAP' ); } my @messages = $xp->findnodes( '/env:Envelope/env:Body/m:markupvalidationresponse/m:warnings/m:warninglist/m:warning' ); foreach my $msg ( @messages ) { my ($line, $col, $node); if ( $node = $xp->find( './m:line', $msg ) ) { $line = $node->get_node(1)->getChildNode(1)->getValue; } if ( $node = $xp->find( './m:col', $msg ) ) { $col = $node->get_node(1)->getChildNode(1)->getValue; } my $warning = WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C::Warning->new({ line => $line, col => $col, msg => $xp->find( './m:message', $msg )->get_node(1)->getChildNode(1)->getValue, }); push @warnings, $warning; } return \@warnings; } else { return $self->validator_error( 'Warnings only available with SOAP output format' ); } } =head2 validator_error $error = $v->validator_error(); Returns a string indicating why validation may not have occurred. This is not the reason that a webpage was invalid. It is the reason that no meaningful information about the attempted validation could be obtained. This is most likely to be an HTTP error Possible values are: =over 4 =item You need to supply a URI to validate You didn't pass a URI to the validate method =item You need to supply a URI with a scheme The URI you passed to validate didn't have a scheme on the front. The W3C validator can't handle URIs like www.example.com but instead needs URIs of the form http://www.example.com/. =item Not a W3C Validator or Bad URI The URI did not return the headers that WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C relies on so it is likely that there is not a W3C Validator at that URI. The other possibility is that it didn't like the URI you provided. Sadly the Validator doesn't give very useful feedback on this at the moment. =item Could not contact validator WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C could not establish a connection to the URI. =item Did not get a sensible result from the validator Should never happen and most likely indicates a problem somewhere but on the off chance that WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C is unable to make sense of the response from the validator you'll get this error. =item Result format does not appear to be SOAP|XML If you've asked for detailed results and the reponse from the validator isn't in the expected format then you'll get this error. Most likely to happen if you ask for SOAP output from a validator that doesn't support that format. =back =cut sub validator_error { my $self = shift; my $validator_error = shift; if ( defined $validator_error ) { $self->{'validator_error'} = $validator_error; return 0; } return $self->{'validator_error'}; } =head2 validator_uri $uri = $v->validator_uri(); $v->validator_uri('http://validator.w3.org/check'); Returns or sets the URI of the validator to use. Please note that you need to use the full path to the validator cgi. =head2 http_timeout $timeout = $v->http_timeout(); $v->http_timeout(10); Returns or sets the timeout for the HTTP request. =cut sub _construct_uri { my $self = shift; my $uri_to_validate = shift; # creating the HTTP query string with all parameters my $req_uri = join ( '', "?uri=", uri_escape($uri_to_validate), ";output=", $self->_output ); return $self->validator_uri . $req_uri; } sub _parse_validator_response { my $self = shift; my $response = shift; my $valid = $response->header('X-W3C-Validator-Status'); my $valid_err_num = $response->header('X-W3C-Validator-Errors'); # remove non digits to fix output bug in some versions of validator $valid_err_num =~ s/\D+//g if $valid_err_num; return ( $valid, $valid_err_num ); } sub _get_request { my $self = shift; my $uri = shift; if ( ref $uri ) { if ( $uri->{ file } ) { return POST $self->validator_uri, Content_Type => 'form-data', Content => [ output => $self->_output, uploaded_file => [ $uri->{ file } ], ]; } elsif ( $uri->{ markup } ) { return POST $self->validator_uri, Content_Type => 'form-data', Content => [ output => $self->_output, fragment => $uri->{ markup }, ]; } } else { return new HTTP::Request( $self->_http_method(), $self->_construct_uri( $uri ) ); } } 1; __END__ =head1 OTHER MODULES Please note that there is also an official W3C module that is part of the L distribution. However that module is not very useful outside the constraints of that package. WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C is meant as a more general way to access the W3C Validator. L uses nsgmls to validate against the W3Cs DTDs. You have to fetch the relevant DTDs and so on. There is also the L based L which mostly checks for known tags rather than XML/HTML validity. =head1 IMPORTANT This module is not in any way associated with the W3C so please do not report any problems with this module to them. Also please remember that the online Validator is a shared resource so do not abuse it. This means sleeping between requests. If you want to do a lot of testing against it then please consider downloading and installing the Validator software which is available from the W3C. Debian testing users will also find that it is available via apt-get. =head1 BUGS While the interface to the Validator is fairly stable it may be updated. I will endeavour to track any changes with this module so please check on CPAN for new versions if you find things break. Also note that this module is only guaranteed to work with the currently stable version of the validator. It will most likely work with any Beta versions but don't rely on it. If in doubt please try and run the test suite before reporting bugs. That said I'm very happy to hear about bugs. All the more so if they come with patches ;). =head1 THANKS To the various people on the code review ladder mailing list who provided useful suggestions. Carl Vincent provided a patch to allow for proxy support. Chris Dolan provided a patch to allow for custom user agents. =head1 SUPPORT author email or via http://rt.cpan.org/. =head1 AUTHOR Struan Donald Estruan@cpan.orgE L =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Struan Donald. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 SEE ALSO perl(1). =cut