metadata-validator is a simple web-based application that's intended to allow federation participants to validate their own metadata before submitting it to the federation for review and possible inclusion in a metadata registry.
It does schema validation and applies Ian Young's XSLT metadata testing rules. It also allows for local schemas and XSLT rules to suppliment the default set. It tries as far as possible to apply rules in the same was as WAYF's PHPH metadata aggregator, since that's the aggregator in use by the authors.
Whilst some parts of it may be specific to the South African Identity Federation (e.g. the UI skin and sample local rules), we've tried to keep it as generic as possible in the hopes that it may be of use to another emerging federation.
This respository is intended to be a self-contained document root suitable for use on any web server that supports PHP. All paths should be relative, meaning that it does not matter whether this is placed at the root of your web server or within a sub-directory.
Installation should be as simple as downloading the source and unpacking it in an appropriate place.
As a relatively simple application, there's no real configuration
required. You should review (and possibly delete) the local schemas
and rules that are contained in the local/ directory. You
probably also want to re-skin it to match your own look and feel.
If it exists, the file local/xsltfunc.inc.php
is included. It is expected to define an XsltFunc class, and
any static public functions from this class are registered with
XSLTProcessor
so that they can be used in local XSLT stylesheets.
There's no real templating system. However, to
make skinning the application a little simpler,
there are header.inc.php and
footer.inc.php includes in ui/ directory.
The application itself creates a <div id="validator"> and tries to
ensure that all jQuery and CSS selectors are locked to within that div.
What's here has been tested and works reasonably consistently with recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge & IE11. It makes use of some HTML5 elements and so may not work properly with older browsers.
A reasonably recent version of this code runs the SAFIRE metadata validator at https://validator.safire.ac.za/.