Re: ISSUE-34 (commonality): Can we get access to tools that determine how often markup is used on the web? from James Graham on 2008-02-15 (public-html@w3.org from February 2008)

From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:40:20 +0000
To: HTML Issue Tracking WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <47B58834.5020009@cam.ac.uk>

HTML Issue Tracking Issue Tracker wrote:
> ISSUE-34 (commonality): Can we get access to tools that determine how often markup is used on the web?
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> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/
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> Raised by: Chris Wilson
> On product: 
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> MattRaymond: e.g. a tool to determine if particular patterns are heavily used; e.g. "how many people use rel=contact and have profile for XFN at the top of their web page".  If we had a process for obtaining that info, it would be helpful.
>   
Such tools clearly exist; it's just a web crawler + a html parser + some 
code for querying the resuts and producing a summary. Philip Taylor 
wrote one based on the validator.nu parser for example. I don't know if 
it's currently avaliable for other people to run though.
That would indeed be useful.

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