{"id":662,"date":"2002-09-03T23:09:54","date_gmt":"2002-09-04T07:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/03\/validation-fixed-kinda\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T13:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:15:01","slug":"validation-fixed-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/03\/validation-fixed-kinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Validation fixed (kinda)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the stumbling blocks I discovered today about <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/movabletype_twe.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: MovableType tweaks continued\">enabling Trackback<\/a> is that it breaks the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/\" title=\"World Wide Web Consortium\">W3C<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/\" title=\"W3C HTML Validator\">Validator<\/a> &#8212; even though I make sure to use valid XHTML 1.0 in my pages, the validator chokes on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/RDF\/\" title=\"Resource Description Framework\">RDF<\/a> code needed for Trackback to work correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily enough, this evening I stumbled across a discussion of this very problem on <a href=\"http:\/\/philringnalda.com\/archives\/002288.php\" title=\"Phil Ringnalda: TrackBack and validation summary\">philringnalda.com<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradchoate.com\/\" title=\"Brad Choate\">Brad<\/a> was kind enough to post a (theoretically) simple PHP trick to hide the RDF code from the validator &#8212; unfortunately, for some reason it&#8217;s just not working for me. Harrumph. Guess I&#8217;ll just go with hiding the RDF data inside HTML comment tags for the moment &#8212; it&#8217;s a little kludgy, but it should work until something better comes along.<\/p>\n<p>End result &#8212; the validator likes me again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the stumbling blocks I discovered today about enabling Trackback is that it breaks the W3C Validator &#8212; even though I make sure to use valid XHTML 1.0 in my pages, the validator chokes on the RDF code needed for Trackback to work correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2040],"tags":[812,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}