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Posted about 18 years ago by Henri Sivonen
Validator.nu has had a Web service API for a while. It has not had documentation, though. This has now changed: Validator.nu Web service API docs.
Posted about 18 years ago by Henri Sivonen
Posted about 18 years ago by Henri Sivonen
Validator.nu has had a Web service API for a while. It has not had documentation, though. This has now changed: Validator.nu Web service API docs.
Posted about 18 years ago by Henri Sivonen
Traditionally, SGML-based HTML validation has treated most attribute values as “anything goes” strings. This has meant that all kinds of bogus values have passed as valid. W3C XML Schema added a fixed set of datatypes. The spec is mostly useless for HTML5 validation, since the HTML5 microsyntaxes do not match exactly the XSD datatypes for […]
Posted about 18 years ago by Henri Sivonen
Posted about 18 years ago by Henri Sivonen
Traditionally, SGML-based HTML validation has treated most attribute values as “anything goes” strings. This has meant that all kinds of bogus values have passed as valid. W3C XML Schema added a fixed set of datatypes. The spec is mostly useless for HTML5 validation, since the HTML5 microsyntaxes do not match exactly the XSD datatypes for […]
Posted about 18 years ago by Henri Sivonen
Currently, Validator.nu mines the HTML 5 spec for UI text describing permissible content models, element contexts and element-specific attributes. The text is shown when an element or attribute is misplaced on missing. Unfortunately, the spec does ... [More] not contain similarly extractable text for microsyntax descriptions. Microsyntaxes are syntaxes that appear mostly in attribute values—for example, HTML5 […] [Less]
Posted about 18 years ago by Henri Sivonen
Currently, Validator.nu mines the HTML 5 spec for UI text describing permissible content models, element contexts and element-specific attributes. The text is shown when an element or attribute is misplaced on missing. Unfortunately, the spec does ... [More] not contain similarly extractable text for microsyntax descriptions. Microsyntaxes are syntaxes that appear mostly in attribute values—for example, HTML5 […] [Less]
Posted about 18 years ago by Henri Sivonen
Posted over 18 years ago by Henri Sivonen
I’d like to enable the use of Validator.nu as a RESTful Web service. To this end, I have designed a Validator.nu-native XML response format. There is also a JSON format for review. I’d appreciate comments on the format—especially from people who can foresee wanting to write clients. Comments on this blog seem to be broken […]