X3D Validator The X3D Validator performs comprehensive Quality Assurance (QA) testing to ensure the validity of X3D3 and X3D4 graphics models.

Help with X3D Models

Here are resources that can help troubleshoot problems with X3D scenes.

• X3D Tooltips provide authoring hints for each node and field found in X3D Architecture Specification.
• X3D Resources: Authoring Support provides links to the X3D Specification, Schema & DTD documentation, and other assets.
• X3D Scene Authoring Hints provides author guidance for producing X3D scenes.
• x3d-public@web3d.org open mailing list (subscribe) (archive) is a good place to discuss X3D authoring and scene improvement.

X3D Validator Status

• The X3D Validator is maintained online at https://savage.nps.edu/X3dValidator
• The Quality Assurance (QA) section of the X3D Resources page provides further information about these validation tests.
• The same functionality is available locally on your desktop by using the checkmark button in the X3D-Edit authoring tool.
• X3D Validator analysis of a given scene can be invoked via url, for example:
  https://savage.nps.edu/X3dValidator?url=https://X3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter02-GeometryPrimitives/Box.x3d

Security note: currently no scenes or errors are saved by the server. Future versions may support submitting error reports of general interest.

Development Details

• This tool implements full validation of X3D version 4 (X3D4) requirements.
• This open-source project is developed and deployed using Ant, Java OpenJDK, Netbeans, Saxon and Tomcat.
• Savage Developers Guide provides tool configuration information (including Tomcat hints).
• This codebase is published under an open-source license (.txt), available on SourceForge, and undergoing continued development.
• Deployment using Netbeans: first run target all.get to obtain additional code, then all.run the project to compile and launch locally. Then run target all.deploy to publish (requires server-side permissions).
• The Tomcat 9 WAR file used for this servlet is available at https://savage.nps.edu/X3dValidatorWar/X3dValidator.war

Contact

• Questions, suggestions and comments about these resources are welcome. Please send them to Don Brutzman (brutzman at nps.edu)
• If you find this service useful, please consider providing a testimonial comment for our Web3D Consortium news announcement.
• Updated: 14 February 2022 (revision log)

Official disclaimer: "Material contained herein is made available for the purpose of peer review and discussion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Navy or the Department of Defense."