HTML-hul Module

1 Introduction

The HTML-hul module recognizes and validates the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) format. [HTML].

The module is invoked by the:

jhove ... -m HTML-hul ...

command line option.

The HTML-hul module recognizes XHTML 1.0 (including transitional, frameset and strict) and 1.1, making use of the XML-hul module. If the XML-hul module is not available, only limited information will be provided on XHTML documents.

2 Coverage

The HTML-hul module recognizes and validates the following public profiles:

HTML 3.2, and 4.0 and 4.01 (Strict, Transitional, and Frameset) [HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, HTML 4.01]
XHTML Basic and 1.0 and 1.1 (Strict, Transitional, and Frameset) [XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1]

3 Well-Formedness

For the HTML profiles JHOVE uses the criteria for HTML well-formedness defined by [HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, HTML 4.01]; for the XHTML profiles, JHOVE uses the criteria defined by [XML]. Specifically, a well-formed HTML document must have no syntactic errors, and must contain at least one of the tags HTML, HEAD, BODY or TITLE.

4 Validity

For the HTML profiles JHOVE uses the criteria for HTML validity defined by [HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, HTML 4.01]; for the XHTML profiles JHOVE uses the criteria defined by [XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1].

5 Representation Information

The MIME type is reported as: text/html [RFC 2854]

In addition to the standard JHOVE representation information, the following HTML-specific properties are reported:

Property "XMLMetadata" of type PROPERTY and arity LIST (for XHTML only; see the documentation of the XML-hul module for the contents of this property).
Property "HTMLMetadata" of type PROPERTY and arity LIST
- Property "PrimaryLanguage" of type STRING
- Property "OtherLanguages" of type STRING and arity SET
- Property "Title" of type STRING
- Property "MetaTags" of type PROPERTY and arity LIST
  - Property "Name" of type STRING
  - Property "Httpequiv" of type STRING
  - Property "Content" of type STRING
- Property "Frames" of type PROPERTY and arity LIST
  - Property "Name" of type STRING
  - Property "Title" of type STRING
  - Property "Longdesc" of type STRING
  - Property "Src" of type STRING
- Property "Links" of type STRING and arity LIST
- Property "Scripts" of type STRING and arity LIST
- Property "Images" of type PROPERTY and arity LIST
  - Property "Alt" of type STRING
  - Property "Longdesc" of type STRING
  - Property "Src" of type STRING
  - Property "Height" of type STRING
  - Property "Width" of type STRING
- Property "Citations" of type STRING and arity LIST
- Property "DefinedTerms" of type STRING and arity LIST
- Property "Abbreviations" of type PROPERTY and arity LIST
  - Property "Text" of type STRING
  - Property "Title" of type STRING
- Property "Entities" of type STRING and arity LIST
- Property "UnicodeEntityBlocks" of type STRING and arity LIST

6 Additional Module Properties

Nominal file extension: .html, .htm
Macintosh OS file type: TEXT

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Last updated 2005-05-09