Provided by: libwebservice-validator-css-w3c-perl_0.3-1_all 
NAME
WebService::Validator::CSS::W3C - Interface to the W3C CSS Validator
SYNOPSIS
use WebService::Validator::CSS::W3C;
my $css = "p { color: not-a-color }";
my $val = WebService::Validator::CSS::W3C->new;
my $ok = $val->validate(string => $css);
if ($ok and !$val->is_valid) {
print "Errors:\n";
printf " * %s\n", $_->{message}
foreach $val->errors
}
DESCRIPTION
This module is an interface to the W3C CSS Validation online service http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/>, based on its SOAP 1.2 support. It helps to find errors in
Cascading Style Sheets.
The following methods are available:
my $val = WebService::Validator::CSS::W3C->new
my $val = WebService::Validator::CSS::W3C->new($ua)
my $val = WebService::Validator::CSS::W3C->new($ua, $url)
Creates a new WebService::Validator::CSS::W3C object. A custom LWP::UserAgent object can be supplied
which is then used for HTTP communication with the CSS Validator. $url is the URL of the CSS
Validator, "http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator" by default.
my $success = $val->validate(%params)
Validate a style sheet, takes %params as defined below. Either "string" or "uri" must be supplied.
Returns a true value if the validation succeeded (regardless of whether the style sheet contains
errors).
string => $css
A style sheet as a string. It is currently unlikely that validation will work if the string is
not a legal UTF-8 string. If a string is specified, the "uri" parameter will be ignored. Note
that "GET" will be used to pass the string to the Validator, it might not work with overly long
strings.
uri => $uri
The location of a style sheet or a HTML/XHTML/SVG document containing or referencing style
sheets.
medium => "print"
The medium for which the style sheet should apply, one of "aural", "braille", "embossed",
"handheld", "print", "screen", "tty", "tv", and "presentation". A special value "all" can also
be specified. The default is "undef" in which case the CSS Validator determines a value; this
would currently be as if "all" had been specified.
profile => "css3"
The CSS Version or profile to validate against, legal values are "css1", "css2", "css21", "css3",
"svg", "svgbasic", "svgtiny", "mobile", "atsc-tv", and "tv". A special value "none" can also be
used. The default is "undef" in which case the CSS Validator determines a default.
warnings => 2
Either "no" or an integer 0 - 2 that determines how many warning messages you want to get back
from the CSS Validator. "no" means no warning, 0 means only the most serious warnings, and 2 will
give all warnings, including low level ones. The defaut is "undef" in which case the CSS
Validator determines a default value; this is expected to be as if 1 had been specified.
language => "de"
The desired language of the supposedly human-readable messages. The string will passed as an
"Accept-Language" header in the HTTP request. The CSS Validator currently supports "en", "de",
"fr", "ja", "nl", "zh", and "zh-cn".
my $success = $val->success
Same as the return value of "validate()".
my $is_valid = $val->is_valid
Returns a true value if the last attempt to "validate()" succeeded and the validator reported no
errors in the style sheet.
my $num_errors = $val->errorcount
returns the number of errors found for the checked style sheet. Get the details of the errors with
$val->errors (see below).
my @errors = $val->errors
Returns a list with information about the errors found for the style sheet. An error is a hash
reference; the example in the synopsis would currently return something like
( {
context => 'p',
property => 'color',
expression => { start => '', end => 'not-a-color' }
errortype => 'parse-error',
message => 'not-a-color is not a color value',
line => 0,
} )
my $num_warnings = $val->warningcount
returns the number of warnings found for the checked style sheet. Get the details of each warning
with $val->warnings (see below).
my @warnings = $val->warnings
Returns a list with information about the warnings found for the style sheet.
my $ua = $val->user_agent
my $ua = $val->user_agent($new_ua)
The LWP::UserAgent object you supplied to the constructor or a custom object created at construction
time you can manipulate.
# set timeout to 30 seconds
$val->user_agent->timeout(30);
You can also supply a new object to replace the old one.
my $uri = $val->validator_uri
my $uri = $val->validator_uri($validator_uri)
Gets or sets the URI of the validator. If you did not specify a custom URI,
"http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator" by default.
my $response = $val->response
The HTTP::Response object returned from the last request. This is useful to determine why validation
might have failed.
if (!$val->validate(string => $css)) {
if (!$val->response->is_success) {
print $val->response->message, "\n"
}
}
my $uri = $val->request_uri
The URI object used for the last request.
my $som = $val->som
The SOAP::SOM object for the last successful deserialization, check the return value of "validate()"
or "success()" before using the object.
BUGS
This module uses the SOAP interface for the W3C CSS validatom, which still has a number of bugs, tracked
via W3C's Bugzilla, <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/>.
Please report bugs in the W3C CSS Validator to www-validator-css@w3.org or enter them directly in
Bugzilla (see above). Please report bugs in this module via RT, <http://rt.cpan.org/>.
NOTE
This module is not directly associated with the W3C. Please remember that the CSS Validator is a shared
resource so do not abuse it: you should sleep between requests, and consider installing the Validator
locally, see http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/DOWNLOAD.html <http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-
validator/DOWNLOAD.html>.
AUTHOR / COPYRIGHT / LICENSE
Copyright 2004-2013 Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de>.
This module is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.