Automated link checking

[Chris Puttick <chris.puttick@thehumanjourney.net>]

Hi

Does anyone know of an automated link checker for ODF files? Use case scenario: materials for a lecture that contain large numbers of hyperlinks, which were obviously (!) verified when the material was prepared, but a year later online resources might have moved or disappeared altogether; so need something like http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/ but with the ability to feed in an ODF file as the starting point.

Ideally, obviously, there would be a plugin for OpenOffice, KOffice, etc., but something that could batch run on a directory of ODF files would be great. I've come up with a semi-manual process that satisfies the immediate need ("odt2html *.odt", "linkchecker *.html"), but it would be more broadly useful and neater if there was a tool that could just strip the URLs straight from the content.xml of each ODF file and had a GUI.

Cheers

Chris

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