Re: validation of datetime values

Kanzaki-san,

OK, I finally pushed a change for this to the W3C Nu validator:

  http://validator.w3.org/nu/

It attempts to conform to the current spec. Please test it and let me know
if you find any problems.

Sorry for taking so long to get this change done.

  --Mike

"Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, 2012-09-27 14:35 +0900:

> Hi Kanzaki-san,
> 
> > @2012-09-27 14:02 +0900:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The validator seems to check <time> element value (and its datetime
> > attribute value) based on HTML5 "Dates and times microsyntax" [1],
> > resulting year only (YYYY) or year-month (YYYY-MM) invalid. e.g.
> > 
> > <time>2012</time>
> > <time datetime="2012-04">April 2012</time>
> > 
> > However, HTML5 spec explicitly allows these values (and more) for time
> > element [2]. I guess the validator should follow the time element
> > definition [2] rather than microsyntax definition [1].
> > 
> > cheers,
> > 
> > 
> > [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#dates-and-times
> > [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-time-element
> 
> I think that's just a matter of the validator not being up to date with the
> current spec. Sorry about that -- I'll try to get it fixed soon. We've got
> a bit of a backlog of validator issues like this at the moment. Hopefully
> can get most of them fixed over the next few weeks.
> 
>   --Mike
> 

-- 
Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike

Received on Friday, 26 October 2012 06:24:54 UTC