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-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/about.html8
-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/docs/api.html11
-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/docs/errors.html14
-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/docs/help.html20
-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/docs/users.html266
-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/header.html4
-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/index.html17
-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/source/index.html23
-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/whatsnew.html22
-rwxr-xr-xmisc/docs_errors.pl14
-rw-r--r--share/templates/en_US/error_messages.cfg4
-rw-r--r--share/templates/en_US/valid.tmpl1
12 files changed, 173 insertions, 231 deletions
diff --git a/htdocs/about.html b/htdocs/about.html
index 3a8a600..5814fbf 100755
--- a/htdocs/about.html
+++ b/htdocs/about.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: about.html,v 1.34 2006-11-02 06:34:14 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-02 06:34:14 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: about.html,v 1.35 2006-11-15 08:02:45 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-15 08:02:45 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="About the W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="./"
--><!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
@@ -190,9 +190,9 @@
Roland W. Crowl,
Scott Bigham,
<a href="http://sierkbornemann.de/">Sierk Bornemann</a>,
- <a href="http://purl.org/net/sbp/">Sean B. Palmer</a>,
+ <a href="http://inamidst.com/sbp/">Sean B. Palmer</a>,
Terje Bless,
- <a href="http://www.iki.fi/scop/">Ville Skytt&auml;</a>,
+ Ville Skytt&auml;,
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">...and
the great user community on www-validator@w3.org.</a>
</p>
diff --git a/htdocs/docs/api.html b/htdocs/docs/api.html
index c28edf8..84eedb6 100755
--- a/htdocs/docs/api.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/api.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: api.html,v 1.6 2006-11-02 06:34:15 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-02 06:34:15 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: api.html,v 1.7 2006-11-15 08:02:46 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-15 08:02:46 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="Documentation of the Programmatic Interface (API) to The W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
@@ -112,13 +112,6 @@ is appreciated. thanks.</p>
after the validation results. In SOAP output, does not have any impact.</td>
<td>0 (unset)</td>
</tr>
-<tr>
- <th>sp</th>
- <td>In the web interface, when set to 1, triggers the display of the parsing tree
- after the validation results. When used with the auxiliary parameter <code>noatt</code>
- set to 1, the parse tree will not display attributes. In SOAP output, does not have any impact.</td>
- <td>0 (unset)</td>
-</tr>
</table>
<h3 id="soap12format">SOAP format description</h3>
diff --git a/htdocs/docs/errors.html b/htdocs/docs/errors.html
index 0cbc646..4eb7a15 100755
--- a/htdocs/docs/errors.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/errors.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: errors.html,v 1.36 2005-10-20 06:46:50 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2005-10-20 06:46:50 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: errors.html,v 1.37 2006-11-15 08:02:46 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-15 08:02:46 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="Error Explanations for The W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
@@ -335,7 +335,9 @@
How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute,
(Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or
check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or
- use CSS instead of this attribute.
+ use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the
+ &lt;embed&gt; element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the
+ <a href="docs/help.html#faq-flash">FAQ item on valid flash</a>.
</p>
</div>
<p>
@@ -806,6 +808,12 @@
<a href="../feedback.html#errormsg">feedback channels</a> to send your suggestions.</p>
<ul>
+ <li id="ve-0"><p>0: length of name must not exceed NAMELEN (X)
+ <a href="../feedback.html?errmsg_id=0#errormsg"
+ title="Suggest improvements on this error message through our feedback channels">&#x2709;</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="ve-1"><p>1: length of parameter entity name must not exceed NAMELEN less the length of the PERO delimiter (X)
<a href="../feedback.html?errmsg_id=1#errormsg"
title="Suggest improvements on this error message through our feedback channels">&#x2709;</a>
diff --git a/htdocs/docs/help.html b/htdocs/docs/help.html
index c470f5a..5e4f19f 100755
--- a/htdocs/docs/help.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/help.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: help.html,v 1.31 2006-07-24 07:06:49 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-07-24 07:06:49 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: help.html,v 1.32 2006-11-15 08:02:46 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-15 08:02:46 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="Help for The W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ mailing-list.</p>
<li><a href="#icon">"valid" icons</a>
<ol>
<li><a href="#icon-usage">My document is valid, can I use your "valid" icon?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#icon-list">Is there a list of all available icons somewhere?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#icon-license">License and Guidelines for usage of the "valid" icons</a></li>
<li><a href="#icon-invalidpage">I saw the "valid" icon displayed on a site but the page is invalid. What should I do?</a></li>
</ol>
</li>
@@ -82,6 +84,9 @@ mailing-list.</p>
<a href="#faq-charset"><q>No Character Encoding Found!</q></a>
</li>
<li>
+ <a href="#faq-flash">How can I include flash in valid (X)HTML Web pages?</a>
+ </li>
+ <li>
<a href="#faq-ampersand">The validator complains about "&amp;" in my URLs!</a>
</li>
<li>
@@ -346,8 +351,10 @@ mailing-list.</p>
alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
</pre>
+ <h5 id="icon-list">Is there a list of all available icons somewhere?</h5>
+ <p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Icons">full list of "valid" icons</a> is available on the W3C website.</p>
- <h5>License and Guidelines for usage of the "valid" icons</h5>
+ <h5 id="icon-license">License and Guidelines for usage of the "valid" icons</h5>
<p>Web content providers are granted the right to use the "W3C valid" logo
on pages that pass validation (through the use of the
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/">W3C Markup Validator</a>)
@@ -442,7 +449,12 @@ mailing-list.</p>
common encodings if you are not sure what encoding to choose.
</p>
-
+ <h4 id="faq-flash">How can I include flash in valid (X)HTML Web pages?</h4>
+ <p>Many Flash authoring tools recommend, or enforce, the usage of the &lt;embed&gt; element to include
+ flash animations or applications in Web pages. &lt;embed&gt;, however, was never part of any
+ standardized version of HTML, and this practice produces invalid markup.</p>
+ <p>There are many techniques to incorporate flash in valid web pages. One of the most famous is the
+ <a href="http://alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay">Flash Satay</a> technique.</p>
<h4 id="faq-ampersand">The validator complains about "&amp;" in my URLs!</h4>
<p>Most probably, you should read the <a
diff --git a/htdocs/docs/users.html b/htdocs/docs/users.html
index dc34737..1574ceb 100755
--- a/htdocs/docs/users.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/users.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: users.html,v 1.25 2006-11-13 04:13:13 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-13 04:13:13 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: users.html,v 1.26 2006-11-15 08:02:46 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-15 08:02:46 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="User Documentation for The W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
@@ -14,11 +14,19 @@
<ul>
<li><a href="#Quickstart">Quick Start</a></li>
<li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Options">Validator's options</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Calling">Calling/Linking to the Validator</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Calling">Calling/Linking to the Validator</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#API">Calling the validator's API</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#Options_Params">Validator's options and output formats</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#Options">Options and Parameters</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Output">Output Formats</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#deprecated_options">Deprecated options</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
<li><a href="#Interpret">Interpreting the results</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Output">Output Options</a></li>
- <li><a href="#CommaTools">Comma Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="#Installing">Installing the Markup Validator Locally</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -38,7 +46,7 @@
</p>
<p>
Alternatively, you can also copy and paste the <em>complete</em> markup
- (including a <a href="help.html#faq-doctype">DOCTYPE declaration</a>
+ (including a <a href="help.html#faq-doctype">DOCTYPE declaration</a>)
for a document in the "direct input" box.
</p>
</div>
@@ -71,8 +79,50 @@
</p>
</div>
- <div id="Options" class="stb">
- <h3>The Options</h3>
+ <div id="Calling" class="stb">
+ <h3>Calling/Linking to the Validator</h3>
+ <p>
+ You can link directly to the Validator home page, or you can call the
+ Validator CGI program. The home page is &lt;<a
+ href="http://validator.w3.org/">http://validator.w3.org/</a>&gt; at
+ the moment (and for the foreseeable future) and the CGI program can be
+ reached at &lt;<a
+ href="http://validator.w3.org/check">http://validator.w3.org/check</a>&gt;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you call the CGI program with extra path info matching "/referer"
+ (i.e. &lt;<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">http://validator.w3.org/check/referer</a>&gt;)
+ it will fetch the referring document and validate that. This means that
+ if you embed a link to that URL in your pages, following on that link
+ will send you the validation results for that page.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You can also link to the validation results for a specific page. You do
+ this by giving "check" an "uri" parameter pointing at the page you want
+ to validate. For example &lt;<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.example.com/">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.example.com/</a>&gt;
+ will validate the www.example.com home page.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The various options are listed above in the section
+ "<a href="#Options">The Options</a>" in parenthesis after the long
+ name. To add options to your links directly, append the options
+ separated by a semi-colon. For example
+ &lt;<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.example.com/;ss=1;outline=1;sp=1">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.example.com/;ss=1;outline=1;sp=1</a>&gt;
+ will validate the example.com home page with "Show Source", "Outline" and
+ "Show Parse Tree" on, but "Exclude Attributes" off.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You may also see these separated by ampersands, but this usage is
+ deprecated and support may be removed at some time in the future.
+ </p>
+ <h4 id="API">Calling the validator's API</h4>
+ <p>The Validator can also be called by programs through its <a href="api.html">API</a>. See full documentation for details.</p>
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div id="Options_Params" class="stb">
+ <h3>Options and output formats</h3>
+ <h4 id="Options">Options and Parameters</h4>
<p>
In addition to the text field where you enter an URL -- or the file
selection field if you are uploading files -- there are a few
@@ -97,7 +147,7 @@
is not served with character encoding information. Think of this as a gentler
override mechanism.</p>
</dd>
- <dt><a id="option-doctype" name="option-doctype"></a>Type</dt>
+ <dt><a id="option-doctype" name="option-doctype"></a>Document Type (Doctype)</dt>
<dd>
<p>This allows you to <strong>override</strong> the DOCTYPE declaration for you
document. You may use this option for test
@@ -131,14 +181,14 @@
</dd>
- <dt><a id="option-no200" name="option-no200"></a>Validate error pages</dt>
+ <dt><a id="option-no200" name="option-no200"></a>Validate error pages (<code>no200</code>)</dt>
<dd>
<p>The Markup Validator will usually tell you if the page you tried to validate
could not be retrieved (for example, if the server gave a "404 not found" message.
In some circumstances you may want to be able to validate the error page sent by
the server. This is the option to use then.</p>
</dd>
- <dt><a id="option-verbose" name="option-verbose"></a>Verbose Output</dt>
+ <dt><a id="option-verbose" name="option-verbose"></a>Verbose Output (<code>verbose</code>)</dt>
<dd>
<p>This option triggers verbose output. Verbose output adds more explanations
and suggestions to the validation results, and gives more information on the
@@ -147,52 +197,39 @@
unset.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
- <h4>Deprecated options</h4>
+ <h4 id="Output">Output Options</h4>
+ <p>
+ In addition to the HTML output intended for human consumption in a
+ browser, the Validator has some experimental features to generate
+ machine parseable output in a few different forms. To enable these
+ output options, append "<code>;output=&lt;option&gt;</code>" to the
+ URL of the Validation results (an interface for these options will be
+ provided when they exit the beta stage).
+ </p>
+ <dl>
+ <dt id="output-soap12">Web Service API (<em>NEW</em> in version 0.7.3)</dt>
+ <dd>Using the SOAP1.2 language over HTTP, this defines a web service with an output similar to the API for
+ the W3C CSS validator and Feed Validator. The <a href="api">Full documentation</a> for this API is available.
+ Can be called by using parameter <code>output=soap12</code>. This API is <em>still under development</em>,
+ and subject to change.</dd>
+ <dt id="output-earl">EARL/RDF</dt>
+ <dd>Produces output in the EARL RDF syntax.
+ Can be called by using parameter <code>output=earl</code>. <em>This output may change or be removed in the future</em>.</dd>
+ <dt id="output-n3">Notation3 </dt>
+ <dd>Produces output in the Notation3 RDF syntax.
+ Can be called by using parameter <code>output=n3</code>. <em>This output may change or be removed in the future</em>.</dd>
+ <dt id="output-xml">XML (<code>xml</code>)</dt>
+ <dd>This output option has been deprecated, and will be removed from subsequent versions of the validator. </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <h4 id="deprecated_options">Deprecated options</h4>
<p>A number of options once available have been deprecated and are not available any more.
This includes the <em>Show parse tree</em>
and <em>exclude attributes from the parse tree</em>, as well as <em>Show Esis</em>
and <em>Show Raw Errors</em>.
</p>
-
</div>
- <div id="Calling" class="stb">
- <h3>Calling/Linking to the Validator</h3>
- <p>
- You can link directly to the Validator home page, or you can call the
- Validator CGI program. The home page is &lt;<a
- href="http://validator.w3.org/">http://validator.w3.org/</a>&gt; at
- the moment (and for the foreseeable future) and the CGI program can be
- reached at &lt;<a
- href="http://validator.w3.org/check">http://validator.w3.org/check</a>&gt;.
- </p>
- <p>
- If you call the CGI program with extra path info matching "/referer"
- (i.e. &lt;<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">http://validator.w3.org/check/referer</a>&gt;)
- it will fetch the referring document and validate that. This means that
- if you embed a link to that URL in your pages, following on that link
- will send you the validation results for that page.
- </p>
- <p>
- You can also link to the validation results for a specific page. You do
- this by giving "check" an "uri" parameter pointing at the page you want
- to validate. For example &lt;<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.example.com/">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.example.com/</a>&gt;
- will validate the www.example.com home page.
- </p>
- <p>
- The various options are listed above in the section
- "<a href="#Options">The Options</a>" in parenthesis after the long
- name. To add options to your links directly, append the options
- separated by a semi-colon. For example
- &lt;<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.example.com/;ss=1;outline=1;sp=1">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.example.com/;ss=1;outline=1;sp=1</a>&gt;
- will validate the example.com home page with "Show Source", "Outline" and
- "Show Parse Tree" on, but "Exclude Attributes" off.
- </p>
- <p>
- You may also see these separated by ampersands, but this usage is
- deprecated and support may be removed at some time in the future.
- </p>
- </div>
<div id="Interpret" class="stb">
<h3>Interpreting the results</h3>
@@ -217,134 +254,7 @@
we can validate to see for ourselves.
</p>
</div>
- <div id="Output" class="stb">
- <h3>Output Options</h3>
- <p>
- In addition to the HTML output intended for human consumption in a
- browser, the Validator has some experimental features to generate
- machine parseable output in a few different forms. To enable these
- output options, append "<code>;output=&lt;option&gt;</code>" to the
- URL of the Validation results (an interface for these options will be
- provided when they exit the beta stage).
- </p>
- <p class="shout" id="api-warning">
- <strong>These options are experimental!</strong>
- The API and output formats are still subject to change without notice and
- may well be removed or disabled at any time. <em>You have been warned!</em>
- </p>
- <dl>
- <dt id="output-soap12">Web Service API (<em>NEW</em> in version 0.7.3)</dt>
- <dd>Using the SOAP1.2 language over HTTP, this defines a web service with an output similar to the API for
- the W3C CSS validator and Feed Validator. The <a href="api">Full documentation</a> for this API is available.
- Can be called by using parameter <code>output=soap12</code></dd>
- <dt id="output-earl">EARL/RDF</dt>
- <dd>Produces output in the EARL RDF syntax.
- Can be called by using parameter <code>output=earl</code>.</dd>
- <dt id="output-n3">Notation3 </dt>
- <dd>Produces output in the Notation3 RDF syntax.
- Can be called by using parameter <code>output=n3</code>.</dd>
- <dt id="output-xml">XML (<code>xml</code>)</dt>
- <dd>This output option has been deprecated, and will be removed from subsequent versions of the validator. </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
-
- <div id="CommaTools">
- <h3>Comma Tools / Site Tools</h3>
- <p>
- This site uses "comma tools", as does <a href="http://www.w3.org/,tools">W3C</a>
- and other sites. This means you can append a string (starting with a comma, hence
- the name) to the URL (address) of any page on the site and trigger
- a few administrative or technical tools for this page. </p>
-
- <p>
- <strong>These tools are still under test, and reportedly do not work yet when
- appended to a validation result page.</strong>
- </p>
- <table class="comma">
- <tr class="comma">
- <th>What it does</th>
- <th>Tool used</th>
- <th>, shortcut</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr class="comma">
- <td class="comma-desc">
- A plain text version of the page.
- </td>
- <td class="comma-tool">
- <a href="http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/html2txt">HTML2Text</a>
- </td>
- <td class="comma-shortcut">
- ,text
- </td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr class="comma">
- <td class="comma-desc">
- Validate the markup.
- </td>
- <td class="comma-tool">
- W3C Markup Validator
- </td>
- <td class="comma-shortcut">
- ,validate
- </td>
- </tr>
-
-
- <tr class="comma">
- <td class="comma-desc">
- Check links (anchors).
- </td>
- <td class="comma-tool">
- W3C Link Checker
- </td>
- <td class="comma-shortcut">
- ,checklink or ,checklinks
- </td>
- </tr>
-
-
- <tr class="comma">
- <td class="comma-desc">
- Check links (recursively)
- </td>
- <td class="comma-tool">
- W3C Link Checker
- </td>
- <td class="comma-shortcut">
- ,rchecklink or ,rchecklinks
- </td>
- </tr>
-
-
- <tr class="comma">
- <td class="comma-desc">
- A version of the page with linearized tables.
- </td>
- <td class="comma-tool">
- Tablin
- </td>
- <td class="comma-shortcut">
- ,tablin
- </td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr class="comma">
- <td class="comma-desc">
- CVS history for the page or resource.
- </td>
- <td class="comma-tool">
- CVSWeb
- </td>
- <td class="comma-shortcut">
- ,cvs or ,cvslog
- </td>
- </tr>
-
- </table>
-</div>
<div id="Installing" class="stb">
<h3>Installing a local Validator</h3>
diff --git a/htdocs/header.html b/htdocs/header.html
index 8171f12..e2258ed 100755
--- a/htdocs/header.html
+++ b/htdocs/header.html
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@
<!--#if expr="$feeds = 1" -->
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="whatsnew.atom" />
<!--#endif -->
- <!-- SSI Template Version: $Id: header.html,v 1.42 2006-11-13 04:08:52 ot Exp $ -->
+ <!-- SSI Template Version: $Id: header.html,v 1.43 2006-11-15 08:02:45 ot Exp $ -->
</head>
<body>
<div id="banner">
<h1 id="title">
- <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img height="48" alt="W3C" id="logo" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home_nb" /></a>
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img height="48" alt="W3C" id="logo" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home_nb" /></a>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/"><img src="http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/12/qa-small.png" alt="QA" /></a>
Markup Validation Service</h1>
<span id="versioninfo"><abbr title="version">v</abbr> 0.8-<abbr title="development">dev</abbr> </span>
diff --git a/htdocs/index.html b/htdocs/index.html
index 1c03b28..062df42 100755
--- a/htdocs/index.html
+++ b/htdocs/index.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: index.html,v 1.78 2006-10-24 06:43:23 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-10-24 06:43:23 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: index.html,v 1.79 2006-11-15 08:02:45 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-15 08:02:45 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="The W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="./"
--><!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
@@ -93,18 +93,17 @@
<div id="recent">
<h2>Recent Updates</h2>
<dl id="news">
+
+ <dt><a href="whatsnew.html#t2006-11-14">2006-11-14</a>: Markup Validator v0.7.4 Released</dt>
+ <dd>
+ Maintenance release of the Markup Validator, including bug fixes to the API,
+ documentation updates and the return of the outline feature.
+ </dd>
<dt><a href="whatsnew.html#t2006-10-23">2006-10-23</a>: Markup Validator v0.7.3 Released</dt>
<dd>
Maintenance release of the Markup Validator, including fixes, updates, and adding an
experimental API to interface the validator with other programs and services.
</dd>
- <dt><a href="whatsnew.html#t2006-02-20">2006-02-20</a>: Markup Validator v0.7.2 Released</dt>
- <dd>
- Maintenance release of the Markup Validator,
- updating the codebase for compatibility issues with recent versions of the
- Config::General perl module, as well as including minor fixes in
- document types and character encoding support, and documentation.
- </dd>
</dl>
<p class="intro">
diff --git a/htdocs/source/index.html b/htdocs/source/index.html
index 8c9b0c4..5c68146 100755
--- a/htdocs/source/index.html
+++ b/htdocs/source/index.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: index.html,v 1.42 2006-10-24 06:43:24 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-10-24 06:43:24 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: index.html,v 1.43 2006-11-15 08:02:46 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-15 08:02:46 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="Source Code Availability for The W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
@@ -175,21 +175,10 @@
a good thing to <a href="http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/">get to
know</a>.
</p>
- <p>
- Our CVS base is available read-only, using CVS pserver
- authentication a la:
- </p>
- <pre>
- bash$ <kbd>export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@dev.w3.org:/sources/public"</kbd>
- bash$ <kbd>cvs login</kbd>
- (Logging in to anonymous@dev.w3.org)
- CVS password: <kbd>anonymous</kbd>
- bash$ <kbd>cvs get -r validator-0_7_3-release validator</kbd>
- cvs server: Updating validator
- cvs server: Updating validator/htdocs
- U validator/htdocs/about.html
- ...
- </pre>
+ <p>For instructions on how to retrieve the code using CVS,
+ see our <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/">web-based interface to the repository.</a>
+ </p>
+
<h3><a id="using" name="using"></a>Using the code</h3>
<p>
diff --git a/htdocs/whatsnew.html b/htdocs/whatsnew.html
index 79091a7..f19fc79 100755
--- a/htdocs/whatsnew.html
+++ b/htdocs/whatsnew.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.56 2006-10-24 06:43:23 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-10-24 06:43:23 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.57 2006-11-15 08:02:45 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2006-11-15 08:02:45 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="What's New at The W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="./"
--><!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
@@ -18,6 +18,24 @@
</p>
</div>
<dl id="news">
+
+ <dt id="t2006-11-14">2006-11-14 &mdash; 0.7.4 Release:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>Releasing version 0.7.4 of the W3C Markup Validator,
+ a maintenance release including bug fixes and documentation updates.</p>
+ <p>Changes include:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Bug fixes to the validator's <a href="docs/api.html">API</a> </li>
+ <li>The proprietary XML output format is (still) deprecated, and will be removed in version 0.8.0</li>
+ <li>The outline feature, broken in version 0.7.3, is back.</li>
+ <li>Local installations of the validator can be configured to enable, or disable, the API</li>
+ <li>"<a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Icons">Validation icons</a>" are now available
+ in two colors and 4 file formats, including <acronym title="Portable Network Graphics">PNG</acronym>
+ and <acronym title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</acronym></li>
+ <li>Documentation updates</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
<dt id="t2006-10-23">2006-10-23 &mdash; 0.7.3 Release:</dt>
<dd>
<p>Releasing version 0.7.3 of the W3C Markup Validator,
diff --git a/misc/docs_errors.pl b/misc/docs_errors.pl
index 1b2b0fe..79221a2 100755
--- a/misc/docs_errors.pl
+++ b/misc/docs_errors.pl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
##
## Generates HTML documentation of error messages and explanations
## for W3C Markup Validation Service
-## $Id: docs_errors.pl,v 1.3 2005-03-18 06:44:14 ot Exp $
+## $Id: docs_errors.pl,v 1.4 2006-11-15 08:02:46 ot Exp $
## Pragmas.
use strict;
@@ -67,8 +67,18 @@ our $lang = 'en_US'; # @@@ TODO: conneg
# Read error message + explanations file
our $error_messages_file = File::Spec->catfile($CFG->{Paths}->{Templates}, $lang, 'error_messages.cfg');
-our %config_errs = (-ConfigFile => $error_messages_file);
+our %config_errs = ( -MergeDuplicateBlocks => 1,
+ -ConfigFile => $error_messages_file);
our %rsrc = Config::General->new(%config_errs)->getall();
+# Config::General workarounds for <msg 0> issues:
+# http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qa-dev/2006Feb/0022.html
+# http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qa-dev/2006Feb/0025.html
+# https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=17852
+$rsrc{msg}{0} ||=
+ delete($rsrc{'msg 0'}) || # < 2.31
+ { original => delete($rsrc{msg}{original}), # 2.31
+ verbose => delete($rsrc{msg}{verbose}),
+ };
$RSRC = \%rsrc;
diff --git a/share/templates/en_US/error_messages.cfg b/share/templates/en_US/error_messages.cfg
index 5266c1d..1a3e89d 100644
--- a/share/templates/en_US/error_messages.cfg
+++ b/share/templates/en_US/error_messages.cfg
@@ -566,7 +566,9 @@
How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute,
(Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or
check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or
- use CSS instead of this attribute.
+ use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the
+ &lt;embed&gt; element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the
+ <a href="docs/help.html#faq-flash">FAQ item on valid flash</a>.
</p>
</div>
.EOF.
diff --git a/share/templates/en_US/valid.tmpl b/share/templates/en_US/valid.tmpl
index 1413dff..207e830 100644
--- a/share/templates/en_US/valid.tmpl
+++ b/share/templates/en_US/valid.tmpl
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
format) to keep in your local web directory, and change the HTML fragment
above to reference your local image rather than the one on this server.
</p>
+ <p>A <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Icons">full list</a> of icons, with links to alternate formats and colors, is also available.</p>
</TMPL_IF>
<p>
If you use <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/">CSS</a> in your document,