I agree. Watir is not the right tool for this.

Perl's Mechanize or something similar in Ruby would probably be the thing to use.

Bret

On 4/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you're looking at pure HTML validation, I'd look at doing this at the HTTP
layer. If I'm not mistaken, most web browsers (IE included) fill in missing
closing tags. You will probably see IE's version of the HTML, not necessarily
what the PHP scripts are actually generating.

Someone who knows more can correct me if I'm wrong. :-)

-Jonathan

Quoting "Paatsch, Bernd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:

> Hello Watir team.
>
> I got a new interesting assignment, to validate all html code of all our
> products. Doing this manual would take me a very long time. Thus I seek an
> automated solution and wonder if anybody has done something similar? Here is
> what I think needs to be done:
>
> 1.  Generate each html page possible (the html code is created by MySQL and
> php scripts). It would be great to have a web crawler clicking each link at
> the web-site and saving the generated html-file.
> 2.  Validating all the html files
>
> Has anybody done something like this? Any ideas regarding what tools to use?
> Any recommendations, ideas, etc?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Bernd
>
>
>




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