Document

Title :	Validator Specification
Project :	Xnfo (http://xnfo.sf.net)
Reference :	xnfo-spec-validator
Version :	0.02
Date :	14/02/2003
Author(s) :	Sanx

Changes

Date	Version	Author	Description
14/02/2003	0.02	Sanx	Added support for unknown elements Error messages and action should be obvious
01/02/2003	0.01	Sanx	Initialisation

Subject

This document presents the specification of the example tool called Validator. It validates the information contained in an Xnfo file, or a set of Xnfo files, plus the production.

Technologies

C# : (todo) Infos, runtime, downloads etc. Download runtime.

Validation Scenario

Here are the different things that the validator checks in this order :

XML consictency
Xnfo version
Xnfo structure
Unknown elements and attributes
Xnfo author email presence
Wellformed Email addresses
Wellformed Url
Wellformed Filenames
Wellformed Command lines (unsupported for the moment)
File references : some information may reference files that are in the archive, for example : run, references the executable to run. screenshot, references an image in the archive. (unsupported)
Check necessary to rulez fields are here (unsupported).

User Interface

This software is command-line only. You run it using :

$> xnfo-validator.exe [files]

files : a sequence of .xnfo or .zip to check.

Error messages and actions

Error messages should be clear enough. If it isn't, it is a bug, please report it.

This document belongs to xnfo project.