[html5] validator.nu Web GUI -- How to validate against XHTML5?

[Michael[tm] Smith]

jama <jamappi at gmail.com>, 2012-11-05 22:04 +0100:

> On 05.11.2012 21:56, jama wrote:
> > It resets on me with this message:
> >
> > Info: The Content-Type was |text/html|. Using the HTML parser.
> >
> > Info: Using the schema for HTML5 + SVG 1.1 + MathML 3.0 + RDFa Lite 
> > 1.1 + Microdata.
> 
> When I save [1] as an html file, use the File Upload function and try to 
> validate against XHTML5, I get the Info messages quoted above. Do you 
> know why? (I'm assuming it's because I haven't set application/xhtml+xml.)

You need to set three different options:

1. Preset = XHTML5 + ...
2. Parser = XML; don't load external entities
3. Be lax about HTTP Content-Type (checked)

If you do that it should check it using the XML parser and validate it
against the XHTML5 rules instead of the HTML5 ones.

  --Mike

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