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      <h2 id="skip">About This Service</h2>
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      <p>
        <a href="./">The
          <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
          MarkUp Validation Service</a> checks
        <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>
        documents for conformance to
        <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
        <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> and
        <acronym title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym>
        Recommendations and other
        <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>
        standards. Related resources include:
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li><a title="Source Code for The W3C MarkUp Validation Service"
          href="http://validator.w3.org/source/">Source code availability</a>.</li>
        <li><a href="todo.html">The TODO list for The <acronym
          title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
          MarkUp Validation Service</a>.</li>
        <li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">The
          www-validator mailing list</a>.</li>
        <li><a href="feedback.html">How to provide feedback on The
        	<acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
        	MarkUp Validation Service</a>.</li>
      </ul>
    </div>

    <div id="others">
      <h2>Other resources</h2>
      <div>
        <h3>Documentation &amp; Specifications</h3>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/"><acronym
          			title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>'s
          		<acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>
          		home page</a>.</li>
          <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">The <acronym
          			title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> 4.01
          		specification</a>.</li>
          <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/"><acronym
          	title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> 1.0:
            The Extensible HyperText Markup Language</a>.</li>
          <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/"><acronym
          	title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> 1.1:
            Module-based <acronym
            	title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym></a>.</li>
        </ul>
      </div>
      <div>
        <h3>Online Tools &amp; Other Validators</h3>
        <ul>
          <li>The <a
              href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/"><acronym
              	title="Web Design Group">WDG</acronym>
              	<acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>
              	validator</a> is another excellent online validation service.</li>
          <li><a href="http://arealvalidator.com/">A Real Validator</a>
            is a shareware <acronym
            	title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> syntax checker
            	for Windows systems, from the author of the <acronym
            	title="Web Design Group">WDG</acronym> validator.</li>
          <li><a href="http://valet.webthing.com/">Site Valet</a> by Nick Kew
            is a comprehensive set of Quality Assurance tools for checking and
            monitoring your web sites.</li>
          <li>Clean up your <acronym
          	title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> using <a
            href="http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/"><acronym
            title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> tidy</a>
            (or use Site Valet's <a href="http://valet.webthing.com/tidy/">web
            interface to tidy</a>.)</li>
          <li>Validate your <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/"><acronym
          	title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym></a> using
            the <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/"><acronym
            title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
            <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym>
            Validation Service</a>.</li>
          <li>Validate your <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/"><acronym
          	title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</acronym></a> using
            the <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/"><acronym
            title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
            <acronym title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</acronym>
            Validation Service</a>.</li>
          <li>Validate your <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema"><acronym
          	title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym> Schema</a>
            documents using the <a
            href="http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv"><acronym
            title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
            <acronym title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>
            Schema Validator</a>.</li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </div>

    <div id="credits">
      <h2>Credits</h2>
      <p>
        The <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
        MarkUp Validation Service was created and maintained by
        <a title="Gerald Oskoboiny's Home Page"
          href="http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/">Gerald Oskoboiny</a>.
        In a previous incarnation it was known as "The Kinder, Gentler,
        <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> Validator",
        but has since found a new home at <acronym 
	title="the World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>, and is now maintained
	under the auspices of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/">Quality Assurance</a>
        Activity.
      </p>
      <p>
        This service uses:
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          A derivative version of <a href="http://www.jclark.com/">James
          Clark</a>'s excellent <a href="http://www.jclark.com/sp/"><acronym
            title="Standard Generalized Markup Language">SGML</acronym> (and
            <acronym title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>)
            parser</a> <acronym title="SGML Processor">SP</acronym>. The
            version in use for this service is the "OpenSP" version from
            the <a href="http://openjade.sourceforge.net/">OpenJade</a> team.
            For some time it also made use of
            <a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/">Liam Quinn</a>'s
            modified version, lq-nsgmls.
        </li>
        <li>
          The <a href="http://www.linpro.no/lwp/"><acronym
          	title="libwww-perl">LWP</acronym> Perl Modules</a>
          	by Gisle Aas and Martijn Koster for retrieving documents.
        </li>
        <li>Documentation and Error Explanations originally written by Scott Bigham.</li>
        <li>Open source software including <a
          href="http://httpd.apache.org/">Apache</a>, <a
          href="http://www.perl.com/">Perl</a>, and <a
          href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux</a>.<a
          href="http://www.debian.org/"><img
          style="float: right; clear: both; width: 88px; height: 30px"
          src="images/debian.png" alt="[Powered by Debian]" /></a>
        </li>
        <li>
          Patches and ideas from:
          <ul>
            <li><a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/">Aaron Swartz</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/">Bj&ouml;rn H&ouml;hrmann</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.smith-family.com/">Christian Smith</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/">Dan Connolly</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Hugo/">Hugo Haas</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.jibbering.com/">Jim Ley</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/karl/">Karl Dubost</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/">Liam Quinn</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/D%c3%bcrst/">Martin D&uuml;rst</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.webthing.com/~nick/">Nick Kew</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/">Olivier Thereaux</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://purl.org/net/sbp/">Sean B. Palmer</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://newsreaders.com/%7Elink/">Terje Bless</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.iki.fi/scop/">Ville Skytt&auml;</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">...and
            	the nice people on www-validator@w3.org.</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>

    <p>
      The
      <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1994Jul/0015">first
      online <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> validation
      	service</a> was created by
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/">Dan Connolly</a> and
      <a href="http://www.markgaither.com/">Mark Gaither</a>.
    </p>

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