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Web and Open Data Validator version 6.3.0

The Web and Open Data Validator (formerly the WPSS Validation Tool) provides web developers and quality assurance testers the ability to perform a number of web site, web page validation and Open data validation tasks at one time.

Major Changes

Web Tool

- Update HTML 5 validator to June 29, 2016 version.  This version requires a Java 8 
  environment.

Open Data_Tool

- Check for required fields in JSON dataset description file - OD_VAL
- Check for required data dictionary and data files in JSON dataset 
   description - TP_PW_OD_DATA
- If a JSON file contains a $schema specification, validate the contents against the 
   schema using the jsonschema validator - OD_VAL

Version 6.3.0 contains the following updates and additions

Web

- Set appropriate Java stack size depending on 32 or 64 bit Windows system.
- Create unique, temporary cache directory and cookie file for the crawler 
   module to allow multiple instances of the tool to run on the same
   workstation.

Open Data

- Skip open data checks for alternate format data files (e.g. Excel)
- Report broken or malformed URLs for dataset files - OD_URL
- Include file checksum in inventory CSV file.

Web and Open Data Validator Installer

The tool installer, WPSS_Tool.exe, does NOT include the required Perl or Python installers (as was the case for previous releases). Perl and Python must be installed on the workstation prior to installing the WPSS_Tool.

Supported versions of Perl include

Supported versions of Python include

Required version of Java

  • The HTML5 validator required Java 8 or later.

The WPSS_Tool has been tested on the following platforms

  • Windows 7 (32 bit), Strawberry Perl 5.18 (32 bit), Python 2.7.6

The WPSS Tool installer is available as a release in this repository

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