http://feedvalidator.org/news/ News en-us 2003-12-13T05:59:21-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2003/12/13/version_13_supports_atom_03.html Version 1.3 supports Atom 0.3 working draft. It no longer supports Atom 0.1, 0.2, or the unofficial 0.2.1. Old Atom feeds will fail with an "ObsoleteVersion" or "ObsoleteNamespace" error. This release also features better validation for urn: and tag: URIs,... f8dy 2003-12-13T05:59:21-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2003/08/05/version_122.html Version 1.2.2 fixes a small bug with two improperly defined error messages (they used invalid parameters), and adds an automated testing script that makes sure all messages are properly defined.... f8dy 2003-08-05T18:10:35-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2003/08/05/version_121.html Version 1.2.1 fixes a missing error message for InvalidNamespace, which is an error that can occur when a Pie/Echo/Atom feed is declared with the wrong namespace.... f8dy 2003-08-05T16:58:55-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2003/08/05/version_12_supports_atom_02.html Version 1.2 supports the Atom 0.2 snapshot. It no longer supports the 0.1 snapshot; 0.1 feeds will fail with an "ObsoleteVersion" or "ObsoleteNamespace" error. In addition, many many changes were made to the existing test cases to check for particular... f8dy 2003-08-05T16:26:42-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2003/07/28/version_111_bugfixes.html Download version 1.11 Changes in this release: 2003-07-28 17:56 rubys * src/rssvalid/base.py: Check attributes for valid namespaces 2003-07-23 08:49 f8dy * testcases/rss/must/missing_namespace_attr_only.xml: added test case for missing namespace used only in attribute 2003-07-20 13:48 rubys * src/rssvalid/entry.py: Validate that titles... f8dy 2003-07-28T18:06:05-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2003/07/09/preliminary_pie_support.html The validator is now known as the "Feed Validator", because it now supports multiple syndication formats with different names. (Previously it only supported the seven different formats called "RSS".) Specifically, there is now preliminary support for Pie, based on the... f8dy 2003-07-09T12:39:11-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2002/10/29/new_mailing_list_for_validator_users.html feeds-archive-talk is an unmoderated mailing list for end users to ask questions or voice concerns about the validator. Registration is free and requires only an email address (duh, it's a mailing list). The list is now linked from each documentation... f8dy 2002-10-29T23:07:23-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2002/10/29/version_105.html Version 1.0.5 is out. Fixes: Added missing documentation pages: ContainsEmbed, ContainsObject, ContainsMeta, ContainsScript. Added new warning: ContainsRelRef, for description elements that contain HTML that contains links or images that contain relative URL references. Fixed bug detecting script elements in entity-encoded... f8dy 2002-10-29T23:04:05-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2002/10/24/version_104.html Version 1.0.4 is out. Fixes: Better validation of elements containing email addresses Allow rdf:seeAlso in dc:creator Allow multiple dc:creator Allow multiple dc:publisher [GUI] Disallow validating password-protected feeds... f8dy 2002-10-24T10:56:20-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2002/10/22/version_103.html Version 1.0.3 is out. Fixes: Useful error messages on invalid feeds with ultra-weird unicode characters. Ignore FOAF data within dc:creator. Useful error messages on invalid feeds with Mac-style carriage returns, and the code listing looks prettier. Correctly validate RFC 822-style... f8dy 2002-10-22T16:27:17-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2002/10/22/version_102.html Version 1.0.2 released. Fixes: UnicodeError fix for invalid characters in feeds with explicitly declared "utf-8" character encoding. RSS 1.0 image and textinput elements now correctly validate. Thanks, Sam. All link and related elements now allow any URI scheme. Previous versions... f8dy 2002-10-22T13:35:04-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2002/10/22/unicode_errors.html The validator now gives useful error messages in the case where you explicitly define a "utf-8" character encoding but use 8-bit characters. This was causing a UnicodeError internally, which we weren't trapping. Now trapping, and I wrote up a UnicodeError... f8dy 2002-10-22T12:39:34-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2002/10/22/version_101_released.html Version 1.0.1 of the validator is now available. It fixes all the known bugs reported this morning, except for image and textinput elements in RSS 1.0 feeds. It still flags those as invalid, even though they're not. Working on it.... f8dy 2002-10-22T10:59:11-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2002/10/22/known_bugs.html Great early feedback from this morning's announcement on diveintomark. Some confirmed bugs I'm working on: http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54916,00.html is a valid link, but is coming up as "not a full URL". Fixed. Missing documentation pages: MissingLink, MissingTitle. Fixed. "ag is generally used... f8dy 2002-10-22T08:23:46-04:00 http://feedvalidator.org/news/archives/2002/10/21/live.html The validator is live. For now, report bugs to rss-validator@diveintomark.org.... f8dy 2002-10-21T22:29:57-04:00