Posted by Andy Dingley on 04/22/06 16:16

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:56:14 -0700, Bob <bob@bob.org> wrote:

>What I am interested in is not a WYSIWYG application but something like
>the old Hot Dog Pro (I think). Sometimes I have mistakes in my HTML like
>a tag opened and not closed or a tag closed with no opening tag, or a
>tag that is written slightly incorrectly (one character missing or in
>the wrong place).

There aren't many of these, because it's a non -trivial problem to parse
properly. Some of the older ones aren't all that accurate. Many of them
today parse XML fine (which is easier) but can't do it for HTML. There
are still some though, if you look.

You'd do well do get a copy of HTML Kit for starters, because that
includes HTML Tidy.

For issues about appropriate nesting of elements, rather than merey
syntactic well-formedness, then look for a real validator, like the W3C
one.

The are also things like Albert the Spammer's CSE HTML which are _not_
validators. These should be avoided, because they're not what you need
at all.

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