@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ area at github][3]. The following are instructions on how to use it to validate
66documents.
77
88 [ 1 ] : http://about.validator.nu/
9-
109 [ 2 ] : https://github.com/validator/validator.github.io/releases
11-
1210 [ 3 ] : https://github.com/validator/validator.github.io/
1311
1412## Command-line usage
@@ -17,8 +15,7 @@ You can use the `vnu.jar` validator as an executable for command-line validation
1715of HTML documents by invoking it like this:
1816
1917 java -jar vnu.jar [--html] [--entities] [--schema URL]
20-
21- [--format gnu|xml|json|text] [--verbose] [--version] FILES
18+ [--format gnu|xml|json|text] [--verbose] [--version] FILES
2219
2320To validate one or more documents from the command line:
2421
@@ -40,46 +37,32 @@ executable provides the following options:
4037#### --entities
4138
4239 Specifies that the XML parser must not load remote/external entities (such
43-
44- as DTDs) from the Internet.
45-
46- default: [unset; the XML parser will attempt to load external entities]
40+ as DTDs) from the Internet. default: [unset; the XML parser will attempt to
41+ load external entities]
4742
4843#### --format format
4944
50- Specifies the output format for validation results.
51-
52- default: "gnu"
53-
54- possible values: "gnu", "xml", "json", "text"
55-
56- see also:
57- [ http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Validator.nu_Common_Input_Parameters#out ] [ 4 ]
45+ Specifies the output format for validation results. default: "gnu" possible
46+ values: "gnu", "xml", "json", "text" see also:
47+ [http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Validator.nu_Common_Input_Parameters#out][4]
5848
5949 [ 4 ] : http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Validator.nu_Common_Input_Parameters#out
6050
6151#### --html
6252
6353 Specifies that all documents must be parsed by the HTML parser as text/html
64-
65- (otherwise, *.xhtml documents are parsed by the XML parser).
66-
67- default: [unset; *.xhtml documents are parsed by the XML parser]
54+ (otherwise, *.xhtml documents are parsed by the XML parser). default:
55+ [unset; *.xhtml documents are parsed by the XML parser]
6856
6957#### --schema URL
7058
7159 Specifies a URL for a known http://s.validator.nu/* schema to use for
72-
73- document validation.
74-
75- default: http://s.validator.nu/html5-all.rnc
60+ document validation. default: http://s.validator.nu/html5-all.rnc
7661
7762#### --verbose
7863
79- Specifies that the validator output should be "verbose". Currently this
80-
81- just means that the names of files being validated are written to stdout.
82-
64+ Specifies that the validator output should be "verbose". Currently this just
65+ means that the names of files being validated are written to stdout.
8366 default: [unset; output is not verbose]
8467
8568#### --version
@@ -92,9 +75,7 @@ The `vnu.jar` validator provides a way for you to validate HTML documents over
9275the Web, in a Web browser, as an HTTP service—just as with
9376[ http://html5.validator.nu/ ] [ 5 ] and [ http://validator.w3.org/nu/ ] [ 6 ] .
9477
95- [ 5 ] : http://html5.validator.nu/
96-
97- [ 6 ] : http://validator.w3.org/nu/
78+ [ 5] : http://html5.validator.nu/ [ 6] : http://validator.w3.org/nu/
9879
9980To run the validator as an HTTP service, open a new terminal window and invoke
10081` vnu.jar ` like this:
@@ -119,7 +100,7 @@ locally-running instance of the HTTP service for validation. To validate
119100documents in that way, do this:
120101
121102 1 . Open a new terminal window and start up the validator as an HTTP service,
122- as described in the Web-based usage section.
103+ as described in the Web-based usage section.
123104
124105 2 . Open a second new terminal window and invoke ` vnu.jar ` like this:
125106
@@ -136,8 +117,7 @@ error-level ones by setting the value of the `nu.validator.client.level` system
136117property to ` error ` , like this:
137118
138119 java -Dnu.validator.client.level=error\
139-
140- -cp vnu.jar nu.validator.client.HttpClient FILE.html...
120+ -cp vnu.jar nu.validator.client.HttpClient FILE.html...
141121
142122Most of the properties listed below map to the validator.nu common input
143123parameters documented at
@@ -148,74 +128,51 @@ parameters documented at
148128#### nu.validator.client.host
149129
150130 Specifies the hostname of the validator for the client to connect to.
151-
152131 default: "127.0.0.1"
153132
154133#### nu.validator.client.port
155134
156135 Specifies the hostname of the validator for the client to connect to.
157-
158- default: "8888"
159-
160- example: java -Dnu.validator.client.port=8080 -jar vnu.jar FILE.html
136+ default: "8888" example: java -Dnu.validator.client.port=8080 -jar vnu.jar
137+ FILE.html
161138
162139#### nu.validator.client.level
163140
164- Specifies the severity level of validation messages to report; to
165-
166- suppress warning-level messages, and only show error-level ones, set
167-
168- this property to "error".
169-
170- default: [unset]
171-
172- possible values: "error"
173-
174- example: java -Dnu.validator.client.level=error -jar vnu.jar FILE.html
141+ Specifies the severity level of validation messages to report; to suppress
142+ warning-level messages, and only show error-level ones, set this property to
143+ "error". default: [unset] possible values: "error" example: java
144+ -Dnu.validator.client.level=error -jar vnu.jar FILE.html
175145
176146#### nu.validator.client.parser
177147
178- Specifies which parser to use.
179-
180- default: "html"; or, for *.xhtml input files, "xml"
181-
182- possible values: see
183- [ http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Validator.nu_Common_Input_Parameters#parser ] [ 10 ]
148+ Specifies which parser to use. default: "html"; or, for *.xhtml input
149+ files, "xml" possible values: see
150+ [http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Validator.nu_Common_Input_Parameters#parser][10]
184151
185152 [ 10 ] : http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Validator.nu_Common_Input_Parameters#parser
186153
187154#### nu.validator.client.charset
188155
189- Specifies the encoding of the input document.
190-
191- default: [unset]
156+ Specifies the encoding of the input document. default: [unset]
192157
193158#### nu.validator.client.content-type
194159
195- Specifies the content-type of the input document.
196-
197- default: "text/html"; or, for *.xhtml files, "application/xhtml+xml"
160+ Specifies the content-type of the input document. default: "text/html"; or,
161+ for *.xhtml files, "application/xhtml+xml"
198162
199163#### nu.validator.client.out
200164
201- Specifies the output format for validation messages.
202-
203- default: "gnu"
204-
165+ Specifies the output format for validation messages. default: "gnu"
205166 possible values: see
206- [ http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Validator.nu_Common_Input_Parameters#out ] [ 11 ]
167+ [http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Validator.nu_Common_Input_Parameters#out][11]
207168
208169 [ 11 ] : http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Validator.nu_Common_Input_Parameters#out
209170
210171#### nu.validator.client.asciiquotes
211172
212- Specifies whether ASCII quotation marks are substituted for Unicode
213-
214- smart quotation marks in validation messages.
215-
216- default: "yes"
217-
218- possible values: "yes" or "no"
173+ Specifies whether ASCII quotation marks are substituted for Unicode smart
174+ quotation marks in validation messages. default: "yes" possible values:
175+ "yes" or "no"
219176
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