Vorlon 1.55, 12 January 2000
VRML97 Validator by Trapezium

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Vorlon is a pure Java console application. It is invoked from the command prompt and sends all output to the console. (For a more user-friendly front end, you can perform Vorlon validation with Chisel, a VRML optimizer and compression tool also developed by Trapezium).

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Instructions

Release Notes for Version 1.5

Support

License

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Instructions

Running Vorlon

You can run Vorlon on any platform that supports Java by invoking the Java interpreter for that platform. On a Windows system you also have the option of running vorlon.exe directly.

Each method is described below. Setup refers to changes you may have to make in your configuration to use that method, and Command refers to what you enter at the command prompt (for example, the C: prompt in an MS-DOS window on a Windows system).:

File Parameter Options

  1. To check multiple files:

    java trapezium.vorlon file1.wrl file2.wrl ...

  2. or (Windows only):

    vorlon file1.wrl file2.wrl ...

  3. To check multiple files using wildcards:

    java trapezium.vorlon *.wrl

  4. or (Windows only):

    vorlon *.wrl

  5. To check a list of files:

    java trapezium.vorlon list=filelist

  6. or (Windows only):

    vorlon list=filelist 

    In either case filelist is the name of a text file containing one URL per line.


Command Line Switches 

-url

recursively check every VRML file specified in the url field of an Anchor, Inline or EXTERNPROTO

-fetch

make a local copy of wrl without checking

-humanoid

verify conformance to the h-anim working group specification for humanoids, version 1.1

-humanoid10

verify conformance to the h-anim working group specification for humanoids, version 1.0

-nowarning

suppress warning messages

-noDEFwarning

suppress unused DEF warning messages

-conformance

limit checking to base profile conformance, Table 7-1 of VRML 97 specification

-graph

output the scene graph in text form

-nurbs

accept blaxxun nurbs syntax as valid

Support

Vorlon is freeware, but email support is available. Send questions and comments to vorlon@trapezium.com.


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