{"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":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15917,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.w3.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311081759\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.w3.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:18:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:18:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13552,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/validator.w3.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312045120\\\/https:\\\/\\\/validator.w3.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 11:40:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 04:15:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 04:15:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15918,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.w3.org\\\/RDF&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.w3.org\\\/RDF&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15919,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/philringnalda.com\\\/archives\\\/002288.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081122063024\\\/http:\\\/\\\/philringnalda.com\\\/archives\\\/002288.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:18:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:18:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7850,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bradchoate.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260215071947\\\/https:\\\/\\\/bradchoate.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 02:14:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 18:33:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 18:33:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<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. 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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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[812,25],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-movabletype","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}