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<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: index.html,v 1.78 2007-05-31 02:32:14 ot Exp $"
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--><!--#set var="title" value="The W3C Markup Validation Service: Tests"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../../"
--><!--#include virtual="../../header.html" -->
<div class="doc">
<h2>Markup Validator's test collection</h2>
<h3 id="TableOfContents">Table of contents</h3>
<div id="toc">
<ol>
<li><a href="#valid">Valid Document</a> (all should pass validation)
<ul>
<li><a href="#doctypes">Document types support</a></li>
<li><a href="#valid_notcat">Document types outside the main catalogue</a></li>
<li><a href="#valid_warn">Valid Documents, with Warnings</a></li>
<li><a href="#wrong_mime">Valid Documents served with a wrong media type</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#invalid">Invalid documents</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#invalid_misc">Miscellaneous invalid docs</a></li>
<li><a href="#nonconform">DTD-Valid but not conformant</a></li>
<li><a href="#invalid_bug">Documents that are invalid, which the validator passes as OK</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#well-formed">Docs that should be Well Formed</a></li>
<li><a href="#encodings">Various Encodings</a></li>
<li><a href="#errors">Error conditions & strange cases</a></li>
<li><a href="#ui">User Interface tests</a></li>
<li><a href="#regress">Bugs and Regression Tests</a></li>
</ol>
</div>
<p id="skip">
This page lists a few test documents and test scenarios for the W3C Markup Validator
make sure everything works fine after making changes to
<a href="../../">the validator</a>. If you can think of interesting
test cases that aren't on this page,
<a href="../../feedback.html">let us know</a>.
</p>
<h3 id="valid">Valid Documents</h3>
<h4 id="doctypes">Document types support</h4>
<p>
Below is a list of sample documents for a number of document types the validator is supposed to be supporting.
The first validate link will attempt validation with the current instance, for test purposes. The v.w.o instance
can be taken as reference/comparison.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html20.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html20.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="html20.html">view</a>:
HTML 2.0
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html20-strict.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html20-strict.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="html20-strict.html">view</a>:
HTML 2.0 Strict
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html40-strict.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html40-strict.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="html40-strict.html">view</a>:
HTML 4.0 Strict
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html40-transitional.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html40-transitional.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="html40-transitional.html">view</a>:
HTML 4.0 Transitional
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html40-frameset.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html40-frameset.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="html40-frameset.html">view</a>:
HTML 4.0 Frameset
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html401-strict.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html401-strict.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="html401-strict.html">view</a>:
HTML 4.01 Strict
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-html40-19990824/">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-html40-19990824/">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-html40-19990824/">view</a>:
HTML 4.01 Transitional - (from the HTML 4.01 PR)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/2329-html401-transitional_iframe.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/2329-html401-transitional_iframe.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="2329-html401-transitional_iframe.html">view</a>:
HTML 4.01 Transitional - with iframe element (test for <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2329">Bug 2329</a>)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/iso-html.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/iso-html.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="iso-html.html">view</a>:
ISO-HTML (aka ISO/IEC 15445:2000)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-strict.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-strict.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="xhtml1-strict.html">view</a>:
XHTML 1.0 Strict
<br />
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-strict-minimal.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-strict-minimal.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-strict-minimal.html">view</a>:
XHTML 1.0 Strict (from XHTML Spec)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-basic10.xhtml;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-basic10.xhtml;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-basic10.xhtml">view</a>:
XHTML Basic 1.0
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-basic11.xhtml;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-basic11.xhtml;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-basic11.xhtml">view</a>:
XHTML Basic 1.1
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml11-minimal.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml11-minimal.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml11-minimal.html">view</a>:
XHTML 1.1
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-mathml2-fpi.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-mathml2-fpi.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-mathml2-fpi.html">view</a>:
XHTML/MathML2
(with FPI)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/mathml2.mathml;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/mathml2.mathml;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/mathml2.mathml">view</a>:
MathML 2.0
(minimal test document)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/application-xhtml_xml.xhtml">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/application-xhtml_xml.xhtml">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/application-xhtml_xml.xhtml">view</a>:
XHTML 1.1 served as application/xhtml+xml
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/smil10-minimal.smi">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/smil10-minimal.smi">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/smil10-minimal.smi">view</a>:
SMIL 1.0 minimal document
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/smil20.smi">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/smil20.smi">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/smil20.smi">view</a>:
SMIL 2.0
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/SMIL21.smil">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/SMIL21.smil">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/SMIL21.smil">view</a>:
SMIL 2.1
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/SMIL21_Mobile.smil">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/SMIL21_Mobile.smil">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/SMIL21_Mobile.smil">view</a>:
SMIL 2.1 Mobile
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/TR/XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG/sample.xhtml">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.w3.org/TR/XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG/sample.xhtml">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG/sample.xhtml">view</a>:
XHTML + MathML + SVG
(from the 9 August 2002 WD)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-print_1_0.xhtml">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-print_1_0.xhtml">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-print_1_0.xhtml">view</a>:
XHTML-Print
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/REC-SVG-1_0-minimal.svg">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/REC-SVG-1_0-minimal.svg">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="REC-SVG-1_0-minimal.svg">view</a>:
SVG 1.0 Rec. minimal document
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/svg11.svg">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/svg11.svg">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="svg11.svg">view</a>:
SVG 1.1 Rec. minimal document
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/svg_tiny_1_1.svg">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/svg_tiny_1_1.svg">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="svg_tiny_1_1.svg">view</a>:
SVG Tiny 1.1
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml_rdfa.xhtml">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml_rdfa.xhtml">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="xhtml_rdfa.xhtml">view</a>:
XHTML + RDFa
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="valid_notcat">Document types outside the main catalogue</h4>
<p>Below is a number of other types of documents that the validator does not have in its "hardcoded" catalogue, but should support anyway.
All these documents should validate, without "pretty print" for the document type</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/sgml_customdtd.html">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/sgml_customdtd.html">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/sgml_customdtd.html">view</a>:
HTML4.0 plus blink ("Custom" SGML DTD)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/rddl_fpi.xhtml">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/rddl_fpi.xhtml">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/rddl_fpi.xhtml">view</a>:
RDDL (with FPI)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/rddl_si.xhtml">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/rddl_si.xhtml">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/rddl_si.xhtml">view</a>:
RDDL (no FPI)
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="valid_warn">Valid Documents, with Warnings</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/2342-opensp_type_X.html">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/2342-opensp_type_X.html">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/2342-opensp_type_X.html">view</a>:
Reference to a non-existing ID
(opensp message type X, See <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2342">bug 2342</a>).
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/nonSGML-chars.html">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/nonSGML-chars.html">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/nonSGML-chars.html">view</a>:
Non-SGML Chars
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/ampersand-as-data_html401.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/ampersand-as-data_html401.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="ampersand-as-data_html401.html">view</a>:
HTML 4.01 Document with Ampersand as data <br />
(OK in SGML, not XML :see <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=798">Bug798: Ampersand as data in XHTML</a>)
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="wrong_mime">Valid Documents served with a wrong media type</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html401-strict.xhtml;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html401-strict.xhtml;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="html401-strict.xhtml">view</a>:
HTML 4.01 Strict served with an XHTML mime type
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/REC-SVG-1_0-minimal.html">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/REC-SVG-1_0-minimal.html">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="REC-SVG-1_0-minimal.html">View</a> SVG 1.0 Rec. minimal document served as text/html</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-print_1_0.html">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-print_1_0.html">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml-print_1_0.html">view</a>:
XHTML-Print served as text/html
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/mathml2.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/mathml2.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/mathml2.html">view</a>:
MathML 2.0 as text/html </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="invalid">Invalid Documents</h3>
<h4 id="invalid_misc">Miscellaneous invalid docs</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-missing-doctype-and-xmlns.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-missing-doctype-and-xmlns.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-missing-doctype-and-xmlns.html">view</a>:
XHTML, no DOCTYPE, no xmlns (thus invalid)
</li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-bogus-element.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-bogus-element.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="xhtml1-bogus-element.html">view</a>:
XHTML1, bogus element (foo element not in DTD)</li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/2001/01/xml-latin1.html;ss;sp;noatt">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.w3.org/2001/01/xml-latin1.html;ss;sp;noatt">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/01/xml-latin1.html">view</a>:
us-ascii xhtml document with a latin1 character </li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/error_pls_warning.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/error_pls_warning.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="error_pls_warning.html">view</a>:
Invalid document (img without alt, invalid <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#adef-alt">per</a>).
<br />
Also has non-sgml character (testing for warning output)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/no-newlines.html;ss;sp;noatt">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/no-newlines.html;ss;sp;noatt">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/no-newlines.html">view</a>:
invalid frames document (noframes in forbidden location). Also test for absence of newlines</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/2329-html401-strict_iframe.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/2329-html401-strict_iframe.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="2329-html401-strict_iframe.html">view</a>:
HTML 4.01 Strict - with iframe element (test for <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2329">Bug 2329</a>)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-blank-1st-line.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-blank-1st-line.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="xhtml1-blank-1st-line.html">view</a>:
XHTML1, blank first line (<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2000JanMar/0144.html">should be marked as invalid</a>)</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/ampersand-as-data.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/ampersand-as-data.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="ampersand-as-data.html">view</a>:
Bug <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=798">798: Ampersand as data in XHTML</a> (OK in SGML, not XML)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-xmlpi.xhtml;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-xmlpi.xhtml;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-xmlpi.xhtml">view</a>
XHTML with bogus XML Decl, served as application/xhtml+xml (missing final "?")
</li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-xmlpi.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-xmlpi.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-xmlpi.html">view</a>
XHTML with bogus XML Decl, served as text/html (missing final "?")</a></li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-fpi.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-fpi.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-fpi.html">view</a>
bogus FPI #1: lowercase "doctype".</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/smil20-profile-doctype.smi">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/smil20-profile-doctype.smi">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/smil20-profile-doctype.smi">view</a>:
SMIL 2.0 with bogus xmlns and missing space between attributes
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/errors_sorting.smi">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/errors_sorting.smi">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/errors_sorting.smi">view</a>:
SMIL 2.0 with bogus xmlns, xml ill-formedness and bogus elements (used to test sorting of errors)
</li>
</ul>
<h5>Various often-invalid site</h5>
<p>The following sites/pages are often invalid, but do <strong>not</strong> rely on the results.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</a></li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.microsoft.com/">Microsoft</a></li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.netscape.com/">Netscape</a></li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210.xml">XML 1.0</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="nonconform">DTD-Valid but not conformant</h4>
<p>For those, we will need to change the message, or hordes of SGML zombies will come down upon us ;)...</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-strict-missing-xmlns.html;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-strict-missing-xmlns.html;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-strict-missing-xmlns.html">view</a>:
XHTML 1.0 Strict missing xmlns attribute (valid)
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="invalid_bug">Documents that are invalid, which the validator passes as OK</h4>
<p>Wrong diagnosis</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-fpi2.html;ss">bogus FPI #2: HTML 4.01 "Strict"</a></li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/bogus-fpi3.html;ss">bogus FPI #3: XHTML 1.1 "Strict"</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="well-formed">Docs that should be Well Formed</h3>
<p>well formed but no doctype. The validator could mark them as well formed, but not mention validity?</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/10/18/test-staroffice-doc.xml;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/10/18/test-staroffice-doc.xml;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/10/18/test-staroffice-doc.xml">View</a>:
XML output from OpenOffice 5.2
("Build/Tag number OpenOffice605"), many namespaces
</li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/4476-svg_nodoctype.svg;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/4476-svg_nodoctype.svg;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/4476-svg_nodoctype.svg">View</a>:
Very minimal SVG document, no document type.
</li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-missing-doctype-and-xmlns.xhtml;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-missing-doctype-and-xmlns.xhtml;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml1-missing-doctype-and-xmlns.xhtml">View</a>:
XHTML document without doctype, served as XML.
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="encodings">Various Encodings</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-test/UTF-8-demo.html">UTF-8 sample text (correct)</a>,
<a href='http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-test/'>more positive tests</a></li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-wrong/UTF-8-test.html">UTF-8 stress test (wrong cases)</a>,
<a href='http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-wrong/'>more negative tests</a></li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/XSL-WD.html.ja">iso-2022-jp encoded document</a></li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.vir.si/">windows-1250 encoded document (Slovenian)</a></li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/">utf-8 encoded document</a></li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/plane20-char.xml">XML file with a "Plane 20" character (bogus).</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="errors">Error conditions & strange cases</h3>
<p>This should be split in UI testing and regression tests</p>
<p>The following documents trip up the parser pretty badly - finds errors way beyond the last line</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/rddl_fpi.html">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/rddl_fpi.html">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/rddl_fpi.html">view</a>:
RDDL (with FPI, served as text/html - example of a custom XML language wrongly served as text/html)
</li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/shorttags.html">SHORTTAGS and -wunclosed..</a></li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/1999/09/SVG-access/computer.svg">image/svg</a> (is this a bug? I think this media type is not allowed any more)</li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xmltest/xmlconf-19990712.xml;ss">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xmltest/xmlconf-19990712.xml;ss">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xmltest/xmlconf-19990712.xml">view</a>:
dereference relative URIs for DTDs </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="ui">User Interface tests</h3>
<p>The following tests do not test the binary "validity" results, but the proper handling of options, errors, various outputs, etc.
"validate" links use this instance, with validator.w3.org links added for reference comparison</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=file%3A///etc/passwd">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=file%3A///etc/passwd">with v.w.o</a> -
a file: URL </li>
<li>
<a href="../../check/referer">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">with v.w.o</a> -
/check/referer (deprecated)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check/referer;verbose=1">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer;verbose=1">with v.w.o</a> -
/check/referer;verbose=1 (unsupported)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check/referer;verbose=1;No200=1">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer;verbose=1;No200=1">with v.w.o</a> -
/check/referer;verbose=1;No200=1 (unsupported)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=referer">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">with v.w.o</a> -
/check?uri=referer (supported, should validate this test collection)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=referer;verbose=1">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer;verbose=1">with v.w.o</a> -
/check?uri=referer;verbose=1 (supported, should validate this test collection)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=referer&verbose=1">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=refererr&verbose=1">with v.w.o</a> -
/check?uri=refererr&verbose=1 (supported, should validate this test collection)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=referer;verbose=1;No200=1">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer;verbose=1;No200=1">with v.w.o</a> -
/check?uri=referer;verbose=1;No200=1 (supported, should validate this test collection)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/MarkUp">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.w3.org/MarkUp">with v.w.o</a> -
Directory Redirect (should mention the redirect and validate the redirection target
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check">with v.w.o</a> -
script invoked with no parameters (gives an error)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=">with v.w.o</a> -
uri parameter is empty
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=www.w3.org/">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.w3.org/">with v.w.o</a> -
uri is missing http:// (silent fix)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/bogus">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.w3.org/bogus">with v.w.o</a> -
404 not found
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://www.w3.org/bogus;No200=1">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.w3.org/bogus;no200=1">with v.w.o</a> -
404 not found, with "validate error pages" ON
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://validator.w3.org/sgml-lib/sgml.soc">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://validator.w3.org/sgml-lib/sgml.soc">with v.w.o</a> -
text/plain resource (refuses to validate)
</li>
<li>
<a href="../../check?uri=http://validator.w3.org:8000/">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://validator.w3.org:8000/">with v.w.o</a> -
httpd on a non-standard port (should be working transparently if :8000 server is running)
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="regress">Bugs and Regression Tests</h3>
<p>These should be tied to a bug report on either mailing-list and/or bugzilla whenever possible.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml_mathml_svg_newlines.xhtml">validate</a> -
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml_mathml_svg_newlines.xhtml">with v.w.o</a> -
<a href="http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/xhtml_mathml_svg_newlines.xhtml">view</a>:
XHTML+Math+SVG document with non-unix newlines,
(See <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3992">Bug 3992: non-unix newlines confuse the parser</a>)
</li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/long-lines.html">Long Lines</a> (cause a core)</li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/trailing-nul.html">A trailing ASCII NUL character</a> (trips up HTML::Parser (not really))</li>
<li><a href="../../check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/colons.html">Undeclared namespace prefixes</a> (colons ":" in element names (trips up parsing of onsgmls output))</li>
</ul>
<div id="suites">
<h2>Other Test Suites</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.nist.gov/xml/">NIST's XML, DOM test suites</a></li></ul>
</div>
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