RE: Validation errors using FaceBook's LIKE and COMMENT plugins

Hi Mordechay,

 

A simpliest workaround to get your pages validate is to use something like:

 

<script type="text/javascript">/* <![CDATA[ */

 

document.write('<fb:like></fb:like>');

 

/* ]]> */</script>

 

This is considering your document is XHTML (to use CDATA)

 

This won’t work in correctly served XHTML anyway as you can’t use document.write with an XML parser.

 

 

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From: www-validator-request@w3.org [mailto:www-validator-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mordechay Kaganer
Sent: Friday, 3 December 2010 1:23 AM
To: www-validator@w3.org
Cc: Karl-Heinz Grusch
Subject: Re: Validation errors using FaceBook's LIKE and COMMENT plugins

 

B.H.

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:31, Karl-Heinz Grusch <kagruschi@googlemail.com> wrote:

My site is using the following headers:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

and I have included the FaceBook LIKE and COMMENT plugins with XFBML. When I perform an HTML validation here:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suitsties.info%2Fproducts%2F62%2Ffrench-cuff-dress-shirt.html <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suitsties.info%2Fproducts%2F62%2Ffrench-cuff-dress-shirt.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=1&accept=*%2F*&accept-language=en-us&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.1> &charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=1&accept=*%2F*&accept-language=en-us&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.1

I get Validation Output: 7 Errors, and all 7 errors are related to the FaceBook LIKE and COMMENT tags.

element "FB:LIKE" undefined 
element "FB:COMMENTS" undefined 
and all attributes inside the FB tags get: there is no attribute X

How do I change my headers so that these elements are defined and my page can validate with no errors?

Hi! 

I have the same Problem on my Website!

But if I do the validation, the output says 9 Errors - 7 related to Facebook, and 2 HTML errors.
I have checked the complete source, especially the complete HTML but didn't found anything.

I have removed the Facebook plugin and all works fine...

Has anybody a solution or the same problem?

 

I had the same question (posted here some weeks ago). Didn't get any answer, but IMHO xfbml namespace is not considered a "standard" namespace for html documents so it's not recognized by the validator.

 

A simpliest workaround to get your pages validate is to use something like:

 

<script type="text/javascript">/* <![CDATA[ */

 

document.write('<fb:like></fb:like>');

 

/* ]]> */</script>

 

This is considering your document is XHTML (to use CDATA)

 


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