[Bug 21383] JSON output for the HTML validator doesn't return the detected/forced doctype

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21383

--- Comment #1 from Art McBain <mcbain.asm@gmail.com> ---
is the detected doctype or that forced*


Also, the JSON output for validator.nu in a roundabout way it does provide the
"schema" it used to validate a document.

http://validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iana.org%2Fdomains%2Fexample&out=json

Produces the following:

{"url":"http://www.iana.org/domains/example","messages":[{"type":"info","message":"The
Content-Type was “text/html”. Using the HTML
parser."},{"type":"info","message":"Using the schema for HTML5 + SVG 1.1 +
MathML 3.0 + RDFa Lite 1.1."}]}

Which indicates what it validated against in the last message. Though I much
prefer the shorter more programmatic output of the W3's SOAP 1.2 doctype tag.

Earlier I had indicated the format was intended to match validator.nu's (which
I found at http://validator.w3.org/docs/users.html ), but it seems this only
applies to the existence of the "url" and "message" properties and the format
of messages listed in the latter. Thus the doctype used for validation could be
included in the extra source block, or as a property of the root (like "url")
without harming this compatibility.

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Received on Monday, 25 March 2013 06:15:09 UTC