Re: [xsl] Use XSLT to check a bunch of XHTML files forwell-formedness?

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 16:52 +0000, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> I ran xmlwf on a folder that contains 10,000 XHTML files. Wow! It
> checked all of them in a couple seconds. However, the error messages
> are poor. For example, here is one of the error messages:
> 
> B B B B B B B B xhtml\htmloutput10.xhtml:206:2: mismatched tag
> 
> Compare that to the error message I get when I run my super-simple
> XSLT program on the XHTML file:
> 
> Error on line 206 column 3 of htmloutput10.xhtml:
> B  SXXP0003B  Error reported by XML parser: The element type "input"
> must be terminated by the
> B  matching end-tag "</input>".
> 
> I find the latter error message to be more helpful.

The xmllint --noout message for this is even more helpful, giving the
line number of both the first and the "mismatched" tag.

Liam

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