XHTMLValidator

import java.io.*;
import org.jdom.*;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;


public class XHTMLValidator {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    
    for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
      validate(args[i]);
    }   
    
  }

  private static SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder(true);
                                                 /*  ^^^^ */
                                              /* turn on validation  */
  
  // not thread safe
  public static void validate(String source) {
        
      Document document;
      try {
        document = builder.build(source); 
      }
      catch (JDOMException e) {  
        System.out.println("Error: " + e.getMessage()); 
        e.printStackTrace();
        return; 
      }
      
      // If we get this far, then the document is valid XML.
      // Check to see whether the document is actually XHTML        
      DocType doctype = document.getDocType();
    
      if (doctype == null) {
        System.out.println("No DOCTYPE"); 
        return;
      }

      String name     = doctype.getElementName();
      String systemID = doctype.getSystemID();
      String publicID = doctype.getPublicID();
      
      if (!name.equals("html")) {
        System.out.println("Incorrect root element name " + name); 
      }
    
      if (publicID == null
       || (!publicID.equals("-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN")
           && !publicID.equals("-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN")
           && !publicID.equals("-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"))) {
        System.out.println(source + " does not seem to use an XHTML 1.0 DTD");
      }
    
      // Check the namespace on the root element
      try {
        Element root = document.getRootElement();
        Namespace namespace = root.getNamespace();
        String prefix = namespace.getPrefix();
        String uri = namespace.getURI();
        if (!uri.equals("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml")) {
          System.out.println(source 
           + " does not properly declare the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace on the root element");        
        }
        if (!prefix.equals("")) {
          System.out.println(source 
           + " does not use the empty prefix for XHTML");        
        }
      }
      catch (NoSuchChildException e) {
        // shouldn't happen 
        System.out.println("Missing Root Element");  
      }
    
  }

}