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Will there ever be RSS/RDF in (X)HTML and have it validate?
[ Posted by Dan on July 31, 2002 | 4 Comments ]

There have been complaints/worries that MovableType's RDF data inserted into HTML files makes the HTML un-validatable (that can't be a real word). Someone else had the idea to put RSS in XHTML for 'one file nirvana' but it didn't work out, but not for a lack of trying.

So, do we need to port all (X)HTML files into RDF and use a new class of software as resource browsers?

Stricly standards-speaking, it is the validators fault for simply not knowing what RDF-data is.

For now, just put html comment-tags around the rdf-data.

-Posted by tomas on August 1, 2002 06:22 PM

Huh?

I validate my (Movable Type 2.5.x) blog regularly (click on the "W3C XHTML 1.0" icon at the bottom of the sidebar on my blog).

The only time I had trouble getting it to validate was when I was playing around with MathML. I had strictly correct XHTML 1.0 Transitional + MathML 2.0 document, but no DTD that describes that peculiar combination (and I wasn't about to write one!). In the absence of a DTD describing it, the MathML stuff would not validate.

Aside from that, no problems at all.

If your blog doesn't validate:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://inmyexperience.com/
it's not because of the RDF stuff inserted by Movable Type.

-Posted by Jacques Distler on November 27, 2002 12:55 AM

Jeez...That is hella spam?!

-Posted by Scott Bruns on April 12, 2004 06:12 PM

Yeah, that was a nasty bit o comment spam. Deleted.

Thanks for posting about it.

-Posted by Dan on April 12, 2004 06:37 PM

Comment posting has been turned off because I don't have enough time and will to deal with the constant comment spamming. I'm very sorry and will fix this sometime soon (soon = before 2004 ends).