How does one validate an entire site?

Question

I realize there's the W3C validator, which works great for one page. There's also the perl install they provide, but it seems to not work on a Mac or it's buggy.

Given that

1) I have an entire set of local files

How do I

a) Validate the entire set

b) do it behind a firewall

c) do it simply without installing anything on my computer? (i.e., is there a web service?)

Or is this just futile?

Answer 1

There are some sites that can do batch validation, like WDG HTML Validator, so that you can validate multiple pages at once, but I believe it is only for html. I don't know if there are similar validators for other languages. I will keep looking to see what else I can find

I also found a link to use w3c validator for batch validation Here

EDIT*

You could also use something like dreamweaver in xhtml format, but I find it doesn't do a very good job of it.

Answer 2

Try this bulk w3c html validator here

http://www.bulkseotools.com/bulk-w3c-validator.php

You can enter up to 500 urls, the tool will check them all and will return number of errors, warnings. If error found, click review link to see error details. This tool is accurate, it uses W3c validator engine. The site also has bulk css validator tool, very useful.