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Posted by John Hosking on 07/27/07 11:22
The Bicycling Guitarist wrote:
> "dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:doraymeRidThis-552C1D.15151927072007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
>> In article <bZeqi.291$0J2.122@newsfe03.lga>,
>> "The Bicycling Guitarist" <Chris@TheBicyclingGuitarist.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The htmlhelp online validator
I guess you mean WDG's validator at http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
[now reports problems]
>>>
>>> How do I fix this? the page is at
>>> www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/labels.xml
>>> It's been unchanged since January 2006. It's the VALIDATOR that has
>>> changed how it regards this file.
I've used this validator only about three times in my life, and never
with an XML file, so I can't confirm or deny any changes. But look at
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/changelog.html.en , which is, well,
a list of changes made to the validator.
>> Stop kidding. That's my job around here.
>>
[dorayme's valid sig separator snipped by me (John), because OE doesn't
do it automatically and you (Chris) missed it when you manually (and
quite appropriately) trimmed his sig]
> I'm not kidding. The htmlhelp validator for whatever reason isn't treating
> this page the way it did last week and for the past year and a half. I
> routinely check 100 pages at a time with that validator, and until now it
> always passed.
> The w3.org validator passes this page, but
That's presumably when you pretend it's HTML, which it's not. W3C's
validator then only checks the XML syntax, so you get (kind of) lucky.
> says there is a character
> encoding mismatch because the page has a meta tag specifying iso-8859-1 and
> my server is sending utf-8 that overrides this (I just recently (july 20)
> finally had the i.s.p. server declare utf-8 after being aware of the problem
> for four years).
If this is supposed to be a feed, you can validate it via
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebicyclingguitarist.net%2Flabels.xml
--
John
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