Welcome to gmuck! gmuck assists you in producing valid (X)HTML by checking CGI scripts, XSL stylesheets, templates, normal HTML files or [you name it] and reporting errors that it finds. It is not a replacement for real validation tools, but is handy in quick checks and in situations where validation of the actual generated markup is troublesome. gmuck is a line-oriented tool. Because of that, its structural checking capabilities are limited, but it makes an attempt to report syntactical errors as well as provides some lint-like features. There gmuck distribution consists of the "HTML::GMUCK" module and the "gmuck" command line interface to it. See the gmuck(1) and HTML::GMUCK(3) manual pages (or before installation, "perldoc bin/gmuck.pod" and "perldoc lib/HTML/GMUCK.pod" in the dir where you unpacked gmuck), and ChangeLog, TODO and BUGS files for more information. gmuck is short for Generated MarkUp ChecKer, or Generated MUCK if you like. Hmph, that's actually ambiguous, see above for a better explanation. But gmuck sounds cool :) DEPENDENCIES gmuck should work with Perl 5.6.0 and later. The development and most of the testing has been done with Perl 5.6.1, 5.8.0 and 5.8.3 on Linux. If you encounter problems, please report them, preferably with a suggested fix (see FEEDBACK). gmuck is written in pure Perl, so no C requirements. Also, all platforms that Perl works on should be supported. INSTALLATION Installation goes the normal way: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install AVAILABILITY Source code tarballs are available from gmuck's home page at . CPAN, should also have the latest version. FEEDBACK For all your feedback, feature requests, bug reports and patches, please use the facilities of the SourceForge project page at . Ville Skyttä COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Ville Skyttä. All rights reserved. gmuck is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of The Artistic License or the GNU General Public License ("GPL") as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the GPL, or (at your option) any later version. $Id: README,v 1.14 2007/03/11 15:58:40 scop Exp $