Validator-Lite Installation

To run Validator-Lite, you will need:

• The Validator-Lite Binary
• SGML and XML Catalogues
• The OpenSP library
• A wrapper script (to set environment variables)

You may already have suitable catalogue files and OpenSP library installed, in which case you can ignore the packages supplied here. You will then of course have to adjust the wrapper accordingly. The downloads supplied in this page will (or should) work out-of-the-box if you download all packages and untar them in your home directory. You will then have a directory valet containing:

• validator.sh, the wrapper
• bin/validator-bin, the executable
• pixmaps/, pixmaps for the executable
• lib/libosp.so, the opensp library
• sgmlib/, SGML and XML Library
• html/, directory containing help files

Validator-Lite Source

Validator-Lite is available either as source code (distributed under the GNU General Public License) or as binaries for selected platforms.

The source is generated from glade, following which I hacked the Makefile to compile the validator.cpp source code and link libosp. This means that "make" should work (though you may have to hack it a bit), but it will break if you try to run configure or autogen.sh. These are provided for people interested in serious hacking on it, not for end-users!

OpenSP

libosp is supplied separately for two reasons:

• Validator-Lite requires an up-to-date libosp, and may not work with exising packaged versions at the time of writing.
• The standard libosp generates error messages designed for SGML specialists, that may be incomprehensible to HTML and XML authors. We use a customised version with friendlier and easier error messages.

Wrapper

A wrapper to work with the above is:

#!/bin/sh

VALET_BASE="$HOME/valet" ; export VALET_BASE
#BROWSER=(set your favourite browser and uncomment this line; default mozilla)

HTML_CATALOGUE="$VALET_BASE/sgmlib/html.soc" ; export HTML_CATALOGUE
XML_CATALOGUE="$VALET_BASE/sgmlib/xml.soc" ; export XML_CATALOGUE
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$VALET_BASE/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
SP_MESSAGE_FORMAT=TRADITIONAL ; export SP_MESSAGE_FORMAT

exec $VALET_BASE/bin/validator-bin

Downloads

• Base package (33K - required)
• SGML/XML library (510K - required unless you use your own)
• Source code (75K - optional)
• Linux
  • validator-bin for Linux (11K - required unless you compile from source)
  • libosp for Linux (730K - optional, but see above)
• FreeBSD
  • validator-bin for FreeBSD (11K - required unless you compile from source)
  • libosp for FreeBSD (680K - optional, but see above)

All the downloads are gzipped tarfiles (.tgz), and the binaries are also stripped to keep the size down.