How to use the SVG validator

System Requirements

In order to properly work, the SVG validator requires:

A Java™ 1.3 (or greater) compatible virtual machine must be installed on your system.

To install the SVG validator, you should:

Make sure that the java runtime is in the PATH environment variable.
Open a console.
Go to the directory where the binary distribution was downloaded to.
Unpack the binary distribution with Java™'s JAR utility:
jar xvf svg-validator-1.0.zip

To use the SVG validator, type the following on the command line:

cd <installDir>
java -jar svgvalidator.jar [svgFiles]+

You can pass options to the command line:
java -jar svgvalidator.jar [-html|-xml|-txt]? <options>* [svgFiles]+

Where:

-html	Will write the validation report in an html file.
-xml	Will write the validation report in a file using an XML syntax.
-txt	Will write the validation report in a txt file.

If no output format is specified, the validation report will be printed in the standard output stream.

and possible options include:

-o <file>	The validation report will be written in the specified file. Can only be used if an output format is specified. The file extension and the output format must match.
-nowarn	The validation report will not show the warnings.
-help	Will print a synopsis of standard options.