January 26th, 2007, 01:35 PM
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W3C Validator & Semantic Data Extractor
Hi all,
I'm sure most people are aware of W3C's validator. Well I just stumbled across another cool W3 tool, the W3C Semantic Data Extractor.
If your page is valid, well-formed HTML/XHTML, try running it through the data extractor.
From the W3's site: Quote: This tool, geared by an XSLT stylesheet, tries to extract some information from a HTML semantic rich document. It only uses informations available through a good usage of the semantics defined in HTML.
The aim is to show that providing a semantically rich HTML gives much more value to your code: using a semantically rich HTML code allows a better use of CSS, makes your HTML intelligible to a wider range of user agents (especially search engines bots). |
The results on my personal blog rendered a Document Map, based on my heading tag structure, as well as presented links to the alternative viewing links (rss feeds) and other data. It's an excellent representation of what information can be parsed from your site. Definitely encourages semantic tags.
Make sure your site validates. I was getting SAX Parser errors at first, but figured out that I had a few entities that I didn't take care of.
What other W3C tools do you find useful?
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