Comments on: Blogidate bookmarklet: 1-click blog post validation

By: Ariel

Ariel — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Using a Firebird nightly from a couple days ago, I get “No Textarias to Validate!”

how is this supposed to work? am I doing something wrong?

By: Simon Willison

Simon Willison — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I like the idea, but I’m not too keen on popping up a new window with an external validation service. How about an alternative bookmarklet that just validates XML well-formedness (essential for those of us who use XHTML)? I’ve been trying to figure out if that’s possible in Mozilla using the DOMParser object, but it doesn’t look like there’s a way of getting it to tell you if XML is ill-formed. I reckon it would be possible to build such a thing using the Gazingus native javascript XML parser from http://www.gazingus.org/js/?id=104 but you’d need to load it separately using the DOM/script append method as it’s way too big to fit in a bookmarklet.

By: Anne van Kesteren

Anne van Kesteren — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Just for the record, well-formed XML is not valid XHTML.

This is quoted text

is well-formed, but not valid.

By: alanjstr

alanjstr — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Error: open() has no properties
Source File: javascript:( [removed] )
Line: 1

Double clicking it in the js console brings up a dialog that says “no text areas to validate”

By: alanjstr

alanjstr — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I can’t get it to repeat more than once per session. It doesn’t even work on this comment box at the moment. The XML well-formedness one works, though.

By: alanjstr

alanjstr — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, that last one was cause I forgot to click OK on that dialog.