[odf-discuss] ODF Validation Service! - Online

[Daniel Carrera]

Hello all,

I'm very pleased to announce an ODF validation service:

http://opendocumentfellowship.org/validator

Similar to the W3C validation service for HTML, you can use this website
to verify a document's compliance with the OpenDocument Format. 

The validator can detect violations of the spec, and it can also give
warnings for things that are not violations but should raise an eyebrow.
Some warnings actually relate to known bugs in OOo (technically valid
files which OOo can't open). As time goes buy we'll add more warnings.

The validation engine was written Alex Hudson as part of the
Fellowship's ODF Tools project. I've been wanting a validator for
months, but our server just couldn't take the additional load. Enter the
kind people at Cyclone3 who are providing a server to run the validation
service. A big round of applause for them! And thanks to Roman Fordinal
of Cyclone3 for developing the web application from Alex's validator.

Roman is one of the developers working on the ODF projects. That's how
we met.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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