Re: Validator Voodoo?
Klaus Johannes Rusch <[email protected]> Tue, 29 May 2007 00:29:38 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.syndication.rss.devel |
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| Organization | atmedia.net |
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--YRPagThk5vczWlYr9SdYTYNuzN7fwalmu1ftxsF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Clinton Gallagher wrote: >Could somebody submit the test cases to the W3 validator? > >* http://metromilwaukee.com/testRSS-1.xml >* http://metromilwaukee.com/testRSS-2.xml > >And then explain what the validator is attempting to tell me so I can get >valid results? > > The W3C validator at http://validator.w3.org/ handles HTML and XHTML but not RSS. As the validator homepage states, there are other services for validating content syndication formats, including one provided by the W3C at http://validator.w3.org/feed/ and http://www.feedvalidator.org/ (which look surprisingly similar :-)) -- Klaus Johannes Rusch [email protected] http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/ --YRPagThk5vczWlYr9SdYTYNuzN7fwalmu1ftxsF Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <!-- Network content --> <body style="background-color: #ffffff;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width:655px; position:relative;"> <div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 490px; padding: 0 15px 0 0; float:left; z-index:1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-text"> <p>Clinton Gallagher wrote:<br> <br> >Could somebody submit the test cases to the W3 validator?<br> ><br> >* <a href="http://metromilwaukee.com/testRSS-1.xml">http://metromilwauk<wbr>ee.com/testRSS-<wbr>1.xml</a><br> >* <a href="http://metromilwaukee.com/testRSS-2.xml">http://metromilwauk<wbr>ee.com/testRSS-<wbr>2.xml</a><br> ><br> >And then explain what the validator is attempting to tell me so I can get<br> >valid results?<br> > <br> ><br> The W3C validator at <a href="http://validator.w3.org/">http://validator.<wbr>w3.org/</a> handles HTML and XHTML <br> but not RSS.<br> <br> As the validator homepage states, there are other services for <br> validating content syndication formats, including one provided by the <br> W3C at <a href="http://validator.w3.org/feed/">http://validator.<wbr>w3.org/feed/</a> and <a href="http://www.feedvalidator.org/">http://www.feedvali<wbr>dator.org/</a> <br> (which look surprisingly similar :-))<br> <br> -- <br> Klaus Johannes Rusch<br> <a href="mailto:KlausRusch%40atmedia.net">KlausRusch@atmedia.<wbr>net</a><br> <a href="http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/">http://www.atmedia.<wbr>net/KlausRusch/</a><br> <br> </p> </div> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStart|**|-~--> <span width="1" style="color: white;">__._,_.___</span> <!-- Start the section with Message In topic --> <div id="ygrp-actbar"> <span class="left"> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/message/7435;_ylc=X3oDMTM0aTFsbWQ5BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwOTEwODYEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA2MDMwMzkwBG1zZ0lkAzc0MzYEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxMTgwMzkxMzcxBHRwY0lkAzc0MzU-"> Messages in this topic </a> (<span class="bld">0</span>) </span> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJwNmozZjhjBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwOTEwODYEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA2MDMwMzkwBG1zZ0lkAzc0MzYEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDcnBseQRzdGltZQMxMTgwMzkxMzcx?act=reply&messageNum=7436"> <span class="bld"> Reply </span> (via web post) </a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJldHFtaXRvBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwOTEwODYEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA2MDMwMzkwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTE4MDM5MTM3MQ--" class="bld"> Start a new topic </a> </div> <!------- Start Nav Bar ------> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <div id="ygrp-vitnav"> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/messages;_ylc=X3oDMTJlMzdnZDgwBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwOTEwODYEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA2MDMwMzkwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA21zZ3MEc3RpbWUDMTE4MDM5MTM3MQ--">Messages</a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/polls;_ylc=X3oDMTJmdjg3ODRuBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwOTEwODYEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA2MDMwMzkwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3BvbGxzBHN0aW1lAzExODAzOTEzNzE-">Polls</a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/members;_ylc=X3oDMTJlNmQ5b2MxBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwOTEwODYEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA2MDMwMzkwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA21icnMEc3RpbWUDMTE4MDM5MTM3MQ--">Members</a> </div> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- Do not have place to put it yet --> <div id="ygrp-grft"> </div> <!-- yahoo logo --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <div id="ygrp-ft"> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJkaHYxcnZnBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwOTEwODYEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA2MDMwMzkwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2dmcARzdGltZQMxMTgwMzkxMzcx"> <img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/yg/img/logo/ma_grp_160.gif" height="15" width="106" border="0" alt="Yahoo! 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