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@ganlanyuan/w3cjs
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w3cjs
A node.js library for testing files or url's against the w3c html validator.
Installation
npm install w3cjs
Usage
var w3cjs = require('w3cjs');
var results = w3cjs.validate({
file: 'demo.html', // file can either be a local file or a remote file
//file: 'http://html5boilerplate.com/',
//input: '<html>...</html>',
//input: myBuffer,
output: 'json', // Defaults to 'json', other option includes html
//proxy: 'http://proxy:8080', // Default to null
callback: function (err, res) {
console.log(res);
// depending on the output type, res will either be a json object or a html string
}
});
Example async testing with Mocha
var w3cjs = require('w3cjs');
describe('html validation', function(){
it('index page should have no html errors', function(done){
w3cjs.validate({
file: 'index.html',
callback: function (error, res) {
console.log(error || res);
if (res && res.messages.length > 0 ) {
throw {error: 'html errors have been found', results: res};
};
done();
}
})
})
})
Older versions < 0.2.0
w3c has changed their validator API to not include some old options. It will eventually be fully deprecated and everyone is advised to update to 0.3.0 of this module.
doctype: 'HTML5', // Defaults false for autodetect
charset: 'utf-8', // Defaults false for autodetect
FAQs
A node.js module for using the w3c validator.
The npm package @ganlanyuan/w3cjs receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, @ganlanyuan/w3cjs popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @ganlanyuan/w3cjs demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 20 Jan 2018
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