Web Rules Library 1.1

This page describes the rules for WebPugin version 1.1

The following checks are available in the library.

Some checks are explained in the Sun Coding Conventions for JSP.

Check	Description	Properties	Language
AttributeValidationCheck	Validates values of attributes.	attributes komma separated list of elementname.attributename. The prefix elementname can be omitted. values regular expression specifying the allowed values, e.g. true\|ok\|yes or patterns with wildcards: [a-z\|A-Z]*	JSP / JSF
Illegal Attribute	Checks for illegal attributes. The default configuration of this check looks for deprecated attributes according to HTML 4 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/attributes.html)	attributes default: CAPTION.align, IFRAME.align, IMG.align, INPUT.align, OBJECT.align, LEGEND.align, TABLE.align, HR.align, DIV.align, H1.align, H2.align, H3.align, H4.align, H5.align, H6.align, P.align, alink, background, bgcolor, IMG.border, OBJECT.border, clear, color, compact, face, hspace, TD.height, TH.height, language, link, noshade, nowrap, HR.size, FONT.size, start, text, LI.type, OL.type, UL.type, LI.value, version, HR.width, PRE.width, TD.width, TH.width	JSP/JSF
RequiredAttributeCheck	Looks for a required attribute.	attributes komma separated list of elementname.attributename (default: img.alt,script.type)	JSP / JSF

Check	Description	Properties	Language
AvoidHtmlCommentCheck	HTML comment is not allowed in JSP files, use server side comment. The check allows HTML comment in XHTML files, recognized by its xml declaration.	-	JSP
ComplexityCheck	Checks cyclomatic complexity against a specified limit. The complexity is measured by counting decision tags (such as if and forEach) and boolean operators in expressions ("&&" and "\|\|"), plus one for the body of the document. It is a measure of the minimum number of possible paths to render the page.	max(default: 12) tags(default: catch, choose, if, forEach, forTokens,when) operators(default: &, \|\|, and,or)	JSP / JSF
DoubleQuotesCheck	Checks that attributes are properly double quoted.	-	JSP / JSF
File Length	Checks the length of the file	maxLength (default: 500)	JSP/JSF
InternationalizationCheck	Find hardcoded labels and messages in attributes and tag content.	attributes	JSP / JSF
MaxLineLengthCheck	Checks the length of the lines.	maxLength (default: 120)	JSP / JSF
UnclosedTagCheck	Checks for unclosed tags.		JSP / JSF

Check	Description	Properties	Language
DocTypeCheck	Checks declaration of the DOCTYPE. It must refer a dtd as specified in the parameter.	dtd (default: http://www.w3.org/ TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd)	JSF
HeaderCheck	Looks for an opening comment and checks the content.	expression (default: ^.Copyright.$)	JSP / JSF
MultiplePageDirectivesCheck	Checker to find multiple page directives, where 1 page directive would be preferred.	-	JSP

Check	Description	Properties	Language
JspScriptletCheck	Avoid use of scriptlets.	-	JSP
LongJavaScriptCheck	Find long JavaScript.	maxLines (default: 5)	JSF
UnifiedExpressionCheck	Validate expressions in the Unified Expression Language.	-	JSP /JSF
OGNLExpressionCheck	Validates OGNL Expressions	-	Struts

Check	Description	Properties	Language
Dynamic Jsp Include	Looks for <jsp:include> tags.	-	JSP
Illegal Namespace	Checks for illegal namespaces.	namespaces	JSF
Illegal TagLibs	Find disallowed taglibs.	tagLibs (default: http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql)	JSP
Library Dependency	Finds illegal dependencies, checks for imported java libraries	libraries (default: java.sql,javax.sql)	JSP/JF

Check	Description	Properties	Language
RegularExpressionCheck	Checks a regular expression in an element or a attribute.	expression scope (attribute or element)	JSP / JSF

Structure rules check for illegal or required elements. To make these checks useful for your project, you should configure the checks.

Check	Description	Properties	Language
Child Element Illegal	Checks for an illegal child element	parent, child	JSP / JSF
Child Element Required	Checks for a required child element	parent, child	JSP / JSF
Element Illegal	Checks for illegal elements. The default configuration of this check looks for deprecated elements according to HTML 4 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/attributes.html).	elements (default: applet, basefont, center, dir, font, isindex, menu, s, strike, u)	JSP / JSF
Parent Element Illegal	Checks for an llegal parent element	parent, child	JSP / JSF
Parent Element Required	Checks for a required parent element	parent, child	JSP / JSF
Element Required	Looks for a required element.	elements (komma separated list of elements)	JSP / JSF

Check	Description	Properties	Language
InlineStyleCheck	Checks for inline style element.	-	JSP / JSF

WhiteSpaceAroundCheck	Check for required white space around start and end markers of expressions and comments.	-	JSP
IllegalTabCheck	Checks for occurrence of tab character.		JSP / JSF