link checker
rapple can perform integrity checks of links within your
website. this feature is an integral part of rapple and is
effective if the necessary configuration is provided (otherwise
rapple does not perform link checking and instead issues a warning
to the log file.) rapple does not validate links to external
resources (e.g., other websites) and is therefore limited to
checking internal consistency of your website. the following
resources are involved in link checking:
| Resource |
Description |
| link checker XSLT |
used to transform the XML link check report
into a format suitable for display (e.g., HTML.) a sample XSLT file
can be found in the linkchecker directory of the CVS resources
module. |
| link checker XML report |
used to record link errors (<error>
elements) on a file by file basis by noting the location and nature
of the error. |
| link checker HTML report |
the output of the XSLT transformation of the
link check XML report. used to display results in a more human
readable format (e.g., HTML) |
when rapple performs link checking it generates the XML report
which comprises of <file> and <error> elements,
e.g.,
<linkReport>
<file
name="/usr/local/www/rapple/demo/demo.html"></file>
...
<file name="/usr/local/www/rapple/index.html">
<error element="a" attribute="href" line="176"
column="27">projekt/contrib/roadmap.html</error>
</file>
...
</linkReport>
this report can be converted into a suitable human-readable
format (e.g., HTML) by applying an XSLT. for a sample XSLT visit
the linkchecker directory of the CVS resources module.
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