How do I validate asp

[Gabriella]

Hi,
I have an asp file with css file.
I would like to validate my asp file (to make sure I don't have open
divs without </div>, etc...).
Since it's a big file, I am searching for an automatic tool to validate
the asp, not only the css.
Where can I find such tool?

Thanks, Gabi.

[David Dorward]

Re: How do I validate asp

Gabriella wrote:

I have an asp file with css file.
I would like to validate my asp file (to make sure I don't have open
divs without </div>, etc...).

You cannot validate ASP. You can only run the ASP to generate output, which
sounds like HTML given the context (ciwa.styleshee ts isn't really the place
for this) and validate that.

You could write program code (in the programming language of your choice)
that would give the ASP different input so as to produce different sets of
output and then send that output to a validator.

But there isn't any software out there (as far as I know) which will read
your ASP and work out all possible output to find syntax errors in that
output.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me .uk/ <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

[Jack]

Re: How do I validate asp

David Dorward wrote:

Gabriella wrote:
>

>I have an asp file with css file. I would like to validate my asp
>file (to make sure I don't have open divs without </div>, etc...).

>
You cannot validate ASP. You can only run the ASP to generate output,
which sounds like HTML given the context (ciwa.styleshee ts isn't
really the place for this) and validate that.
>
You could write program code (in the programming language of your
choice) that would give the ASP different input so as to produce
different sets of output and then send that output to a validator.
>
But there isn't any software out there (as far as I know) which will
read your ASP and work out all possible output to find syntax errors
in that output.
>

It's impossible (isn't it?) I mean, I suppose that some ASP pages might
contain code for which the number of possible HTML outcomes was
deterministic - but in the general case, any given ASP page could have
an infinite variety of different outcomes.

From an ASP page it's possible to call library code; so even an ASP
parser couldn't predict how the page might execute, except in a limited
range of cases.

Therefore it's theoretically impossible to predict whether an arbitrary
ASP page will always, sometimes or never produce valid HTML. Only a warm
geek can do that.

Of course, if the ASP were produced in accordance with some specified
scheme, and were restricted to some set of known libraries, then it
could in theory be be validated.

--
Jack.

http://www.jackpot.uk.net/

[Harlan Messinger]

Re: How do I validate asp

Jack wrote:

David Dorward wrote:

>Gabriella wrote:
>>

>>I have an asp file with css file. I would like to validate my asp
>>file (to make sure I don't have open divs without </div>, etc...).

>>
>You cannot validate ASP. You can only run the ASP to generate output,
>which sounds like HTML given the context (ciwa.styleshee ts isn't
>really the place for this) and validate that.
>>
>You could write program code (in the programming language of your
>choice) that would give the ASP different input so as to produce
>different sets of output and then send that output to a validator.
>>
>But there isn't any software out there (as far as I know) which will
>read your ASP and work out all possible output to find syntax errors
>in that output.
>>

It's impossible (isn't it?) I mean, I suppose that some ASP pages might
contain code for which the number of possible HTML outcomes was
deterministic - but in the general case, any given ASP page could have
an infinite variety of different outcomes.

Sure. What would a validator do with:
<%
dim x
x = "div"
%>
<div><<%=x%>> </div>


What if the value of x were chosen at random from an array of several
tag names?

[PDannyD]

Re: How do I validate asp

On Friday 28 July 2006 17:16, Gabriella [frohlinger@yaho o.com] wrote in
message <1154103372.403 994.279460@i42g 2000cwa.googleg roups.com>

Hi,
I have an asp file with css file.
I would like to validate my asp file (to make sure I don't have open
divs without </div>, etc...).
Since it's a big file, I am searching for an automatic tool to validate
the asp, not only the css.
Where can I find such tool?

Does this help?

http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#manual

"If, for some reason, you prefer running your own instance of the Markup
Validator, check out our developer's documentation."

http://validator.w3.org/docs/devel.html

[Jim Moe]

Re: How do I validate asp

Gabriella wrote:

I have an asp file with css file.
I would like to validate my asp file (to make sure I don't have open
divs without </div>, etc...).
>

View the page in a (non-IE) browser. Save the page as some HTML file.
Validate that file.

--
jmm (hyphen) list (at) sohnen-moe (dot) com
(Remove .AXSPAMGN for email)

[Darin McGrew]

Re: How do I validate asp

Gabriella wrote:

>I have an asp file with css file.
>I would like to validate my asp file (to make sure I don't have open
>divs without </div>, etc...).

Jim Moe <jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@s ohnen-moe.comwrote:

View the page in a (non-IE) browser. Save the page as some HTML file.
Validate that file.

With Opera, you can view the page and hit Ctrl-Alt-V to send it to the
validator.
--
Darin McGrew, mcgrew@stanford alumni.org, http://www.rahul.net/mcgrew/
Web Design Group, darin@htmlhelp. com, http://www.HTMLHelp.com/

"Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble." - Louis L'Amour