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

[Michael[tm] Smith]

jama <jamappi at gmail.com>, 2012-11-06 09:42 +0100:

> On 06.11.2012 09:30, Michael[tm] Smith wrote:
> >Actually I realize now that upstream http://validator.nu/ does that as
> >expected. The bad behavior you're seeing is only in the W3C Nu validator
> >and so is a bug that I need to figure out the cause of and fix. Sorry that
> >you had to be the one to discover it but I will try to get a fix made asap
> >so that others don't get bit by it.
> 
> I tried http://validator.nu/ now and I'm getting a very strange error there
> too. I checked two *identical* files against the XHTML5 preset. The only
> difference is that one file I named .html and the other .xhtml. The .xhtml
> one would validate just as expected, but the .html one would give me this
> error:
> 
> IO Error: Non-XML Content-Type: |text/html|.
> 
> Are you sure that the validator at http://validator.nu/ works as intended?
> It seems to me this one falls back to checking the file extension as well.
> (Or maybe I'm doing something wrong here.)

It works for me as expected without reporting that error. Do you have the
"Be lax about HTTP Content-Type" option checked when you feed it the .html
file?

  --Mike

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