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--><!--#set var="title" value="TODO List for The W3C MarkUp Validation Service"
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<p id="skip" class="intro">
This page has the to-do list for the <a href="./"><acronym
- title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> MarkUp
- Validation Service</a>, including bugs that need fixing and general
- wish list items. See also the
+ title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> MarkUp
+ Validation Service</a>, including bugs that need fixing and general
+ wish list items. See also the
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">www-validator
mailing list archives</a> for recent discussion that may not be
reflected on this page.
@@ -23,51 +23,16 @@
<p>
As a result, you will find several lists on this page now; one for each
planned version and one for general "some time when I get a round tuit"
- stuff. As releases are made, the TODO items for that release
- <em>may</em> get moved to a separate "Changelog/Release Notes" page, but
- if lazyness wins out they may just stay here after all. <code>:-)</code>
+ stuff. As releases are made, the TODO items for that release are removed
+ (see <a href="whatsnew.html">What's New</a> and CVS for details) or moved
+ to the next release if delayed.
</p>
- <div id="validator-0_6_0">
- <h2>Validator v0.6.0</h2>
- <ul>
- <li class="done">
- Fix up all absolute URIs to be relative (to aid local installations).
- Thanks to Alex Holst for the reminder. Thanks to Ville Skytt&auml; for the
- patch.
- </li>
- <li class="done">
- Fix up Validators temp file handling to use secure temporary files.
- Thanks to Alex Holst for the prod... <code>:-)</code>
- </li>
- <li class="done">
- Fix up Validator to be "-T" clean.
- Thanks (again) to Alex Holst for the prod... <code>:-)</code>
- </li>
- <li class="done">Make it run under mod_perl.</li>
- <li class="done">
- Apply Ville Skytt&auml;'s
- <a href="http://cachalot.ods.org/patches/w3c-validator/">patches</a>.
- </li>
- <li class="done">
- Move entirely to OpenSP instead of a custom hacked version of
- Liam Quinn's lq-nsgmls (OpenSP includes Liam's patches).
- </li>
- <li class="done">
- Add "check.cfg" configuration file to avoid path hacking (replace
- mjd's regex ;D).
- </li>
- <li class="done">Add first cut at
- <acronym title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym> output!</li>
- <li class="done">Add count of errors found in page.</li>
- <li>Add icon for ISO-HTML.</li>
- <li>Bring back the Root Namespace in results.</li>
- </ul>
- </div>
<div id="validator-0_7_0">
- <h2>Validator v0.7.0 (tentative)</h2>
+ <h2>Validator v0.7.0</h2>
<div id="validator-0_7_0-core">
<h3>Core Changes</h3>
<ul>
+ <li>Bring back the Root Namespace in results.</li>
<li>
Investigate how, if, and when, to use Nick Kew's most excellent
<code>XMLMessageReporter</code> patch to OpenSP.
@@ -75,15 +40,15 @@
<li>Figure out <em>some</em> way to avoid inlining so much static
<acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>!</li>
<li>Finish up the textarea for testing short
- <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> fragments.</li>
+ <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> fragments.</li>
<li>
Add an <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>
pretty-printer feature, using
<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/">tidy</a> and/or Enscript?
</li>
<li>Add support for https:// (<acronym
- title="Transport Layer Security">TLS</acronym>/<acronym
- title="Secure Sockets Layer">SSL</acronym>) using Ville's patches.</li>
+ title="Transport Layer Security">TLS</acronym>/<acronym
+ title="Secure Sockets Layer">SSL</acronym>) using Ville's patches.</li>
<li>
Pay attention to Accept-Charset (cf. <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2001JanMar/0255.html">this</a>
message from "brewhaha").
@@ -118,13 +83,13 @@
<li>
Add system requirements for
<abbr title="Microsoft Windows NT">NT</abbr>/<acronym
- title="Microsoft Windows 2000">W2K</acronym>.
- Bug Bjoern about his "Installing the Validator on
- <abbr title="Microsoft Windows NT">NT</abbr>" doc.
- Link to ActiveState <code>Text::Iconv</code> and friends.
+ title="Microsoft Windows 2000">W2K</acronym>.
+ Bug Bjoern about his "Installing the Validator on
+ <abbr title="Microsoft Windows NT">NT</abbr>" doc.
+ Link to ActiveState <code>Text::Iconv</code> and friends.
</li>
<li>Add docs on editing
- <acronym title="Document Type Definitions">DTDs</acronym>.</li>
+ <acronym title="Document Type Definitions">DTDs</acronym>.</li>
<li>Document how to add new <code>DOCTYPEs</code> to the Validator.</li>
<li>Write documentation for Content Negotiation of Badges</li>
</ul>
@@ -132,16 +97,10 @@
<div id="validator-0_7_0-site">
<h3>Website Changes</h3>
<ul>
- <li>
- Add catalog of online tools and other validators. In particular, link to
- the <acronym title="Web Design Group">WDG</acronym>
- tools and Nick Kew's most excellent <code>*Valet</code> tools.
- </li>
- <li>
- Link to Jukka's pages; both in general and to specific pages.
- Ask him about mirroring some of the stuff on validator.w3.org.
- </li>
- <li>Include some Bookmarklets for the Validator</li>
+ <li>
+ Link to Jukka's pages; both in general and to specific pages.
+ Ask him about mirroring some of the stuff on validator.w3.org.
+ </li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
@@ -156,8 +115,8 @@
</li>
<li>
Finish adding support for <acronym
- title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>
- validation (see also:
+ title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>
+ validation (see also:
<a href="dev/tests/#xml">test cases</a>, or
<a href="http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~richard/xml-check.html">an
existing service</a>).
@@ -176,7 +135,7 @@
validation directly into this service; either
directly or by some form of linking to the existing service on
Jigsaw.
- </li>
+ </li>
<li>
Make e.g. <code>http://validator.w3.org/check/referer;imgonly</code>
return only an image showing the validation status of the referring
@@ -198,8 +157,8 @@
</li>
<li>
Investigate validation of <a
- href="http://www.openhealth.org/RDDL/"><acronym
- title="Resource Directory Description Language">RDDL</acronym></a>.
+ href="http://www.openhealth.org/RDDL/"><acronym
+ title="Resource Directory Description Language">RDDL</acronym></a>.
</li>
<li>
Fix directories differing only in name case in
@@ -242,15 +201,15 @@
<li>
Make lists of "most frequently validated invalid pages"
and "most frequently validated (non-<acronym
- title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>?) valid pages"
+ title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>?) valid pages"
(need to start logging stuff first, including <acronym
- title="Internet Protocol Addresses">IPs</acronym> to compare
+ title="Internet Protocol Addresses">IPs</acronym> to compare
uniqueness).
</li>
<li>
Install and play with <code>HTML::Validator</code>, link to it from somewhere:
<a href="http://www.hut.fi/~samzait/HTML-Validator/"><code>HTML::Validator</code>
- Home Page</a>
+ Home Page</a>
<a href="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/S/SA/SAIT/">Sami Itkonen's
<acronym title="Comprehensive Perl Archive Network">CPAN</acronym> directory</a>
</li>
@@ -262,14 +221,14 @@
<acronym title="Standard Generalized Markup Language">SGML</acronym>
implementation notes"</a> in the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/"><acronym
- title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> 4.0 spec</a>.
+ title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> 4.0 spec</a>.
(these things really belong in something like
<a href="http://tidy.sf.net/">Tidy</a>).
</li>
<li>
Make an "elements found" section a la Webtechs, with links from each
element to the appropriate place in either the <acronym
- title="Document Type Definition">DTD</acronym> tree listing
+ title="Document Type Definition">DTD</acronym> tree listing
produced with dtd2html (after running dtd2html with all <acronym
title="Document Type Definitions">DTDs</acronym> in the
catalog), or the <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>
@@ -303,13 +262,13 @@
</li>
<li>
"registered users" could have a list of <acronym
- title="Uniform Resource Locators">URLs</acronym> they're interested in,
+ title="Uniform Resource Locators">URLs</acronym> they're interested in,
and whenever they return to the service they can modify this list,
and e-mail can be sent whenever any of them cease to validate
</li>
<li>
Right now someone could probably use the existing <acronym
- title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym>-minder
+ title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym>-minder
service instead of writing a new one (tell it to "mind" the
<acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym>
that points to the validation result for a page?) But I'm not sure
@@ -331,13 +290,18 @@
using images mixed with text, or just an image?
</li>
<li>Add a section with
- <acronym title="Platform For Internet Content Selection">PICS</acronym>
- info?</li>
+ <acronym title="Platform For Internet Content Selection">PICS</acronym>
+ info?</li>
<li>
Issue <acronym title="Platform For Internet Content Selection">PICS</acronym>
labels for documents that do/don't conform? Or for editing tools that don't
conform?
</li>
+ <li>
+ Investigate possibility of modifying OpenSP's messages for e.g.
+ invalid attributes to include name of current element and version
+ and type of markup in use.
+ </li>
</ol>
</div>
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