[Going ever further off topic....]
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:52:09 -0500
John Sanda <john.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Alyssa Kwan <alyssa.c.k...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > I'd like to unit test my html output for well-formedness. What's an
> > easy way to test it for HTML5 validity? Are there good Clojure libs
> > for this? I only need to check for validity, not parse.
> You might want to a look at http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/. I've neither
> used it with Clojure nor for HTML validation, but I have used a good bit for
> general purpose XML validation. I was pretty happy with it.
That (well, something like it) was my initial thought. But there's no
schema/DTD for HTML5, so you can't use a traditional validator like
the Validator class to get even that much of a check.
For that matter, HTML5 includes things that can't be expressed in
SGML, much less XML. The spec explicitly states that a conformance
checker that just does a DTD-based validation is not a conforming
conformance checker according to the specification.
This may be why there's no DTD yet: the spec is under development, so
providing a DTD would just encourage people to use DTD-based
validators instead of writing the custom code required to properly
check conformance. Hopefully, when it's finished they'll publish a
DTD, so conformance checkers can be written that assume a valid
document.
<mike
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