Bug 6747 – Direct input of HTML5 seems to validate anything

Bug 6747 - Direct input of HTML5 seems to validate anything

Summary:

Direct input of HTML5 seems to validate anything

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Validator
Component:	HTML5
Version:	HEAD
Platform:	PC Linux

Importance:	P2 minor (vote)
Target Milestone:	0.8.6
Assigned To:	Ville Skytt
QA Contact:	qa-dev tracking

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Reported:	2009-03-30 02:59 UTC by Eric Anderson
Modified:	2010-03-02 19:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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HTML5 doc that should not validate (196 bytes, text/html) 2009-03-30 02:59 UTC, Eric Anderson	Details
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Description Eric Anderson 2009-03-30 02:59:47 UTC

Created attachment 674 [details]
HTML5 doc that should not validate

When doing direct input of a HTML5 document the validator seems to return it
being ok no matter what. Attached is a small test file that shows the problem.
The <body> tags is purposely mistyped as <bodly>. If I upload this file then I
get an error as expected. But if I copy and paste the text in the direct input
then it says the document is ok even though it is not.

After a bit of testing I discovered that if I explicitly tell it that the
content is HTML5 then it detects the problems fine. So it only seems to be a
problem if the doctype is automatically detecting the doctype (even though it
is automatically detecting HTML5 correctly).

Comment 1 Ville Skytt 2009-09-15 19:11:34 UTC

That's right; when not overriding doctype or charset, validator ended up
passing a malformed Content-Type header to the HTML5 validator.  This should be
fixed in http://www.w3.org/mid/E1MndLh-0001IU-EA%40lionel-hutz.w3.org , but it
remains to be examined why this resulted in marking everything as valid
(probably the HTML5 validator output was something the markup validator
couldn't understand).

Comment 2 Ville Skytt 2009-09-15 19:26:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> it remains to be examined why this resulted in marking everything as valid
> (probably the HTML5 validator output was something the markup validator
> couldn't understand).

Indeed.  This should be fixed in
http://www.w3.org/mid/E1Mnddq-0001uN-Gh%40lionel-hutz.w3.org

Comment 3 Ville Skytt 2010-03-02 19:55:15 UTC

Fix is included in 0.8.6.