Welcome to gmuck! gmuck assists you in generating valid (X)HTML by examining the source code that generates it. It is not a replacement for real validation tools, but is handy in quick checks and in situations where validation of the actual markup is troublesome. gmuck is a line-oriented tool. Because of that and other fundamental reasons, it will not check the structure of your markup, but makes an attempt to report syntactical errors as well as provides some lint-like capabilities. There gmuck distribution consists of the "HTML::GMUCK" module and the "gmuck" command line interface to it. gmuck is short for Generated MarkUp ChecKer, or Generated MUCK if you like. See the gmuck(1) and HTML::GMUCK(3) manual pages (or "perldoc docs/gmuck.pod" and "perldoc docs/HTML-GMUCK.pod" before installation), and ChangeLog, TODO and BUGS files for more information. DEPENDENCIES gmuck should work with Perl 5.00503 and later. The development and most of the testing is done with Perl 5.6.1 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. HTML::Tagset (version 3.03 or newer) is required. Regex::PreSuf is recommended, but not required. Systems with it will see a slight performance gain in most checks. INSTALLATION Installation goes the normal way: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install AVAILABILITY gmuck's home page is 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 . All input is very much appreciated. Ville Skyttä COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2001-2002 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 1.5 2002/04/07 13:03:28 scop Exp $