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w3c-markup-validator package

No HTML5 validator

Bug #996117 reported by Pierre Rudloff
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
w3c-markup-validator (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When trying to validate HTML5, the validator says "External Checker not available", but there is no package for the HTML5 validator.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: w3c-markup-validator 1.2+dfsg-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 7 20:29:29 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: w3c-markup-validator
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (10 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.w3c.validator.conf: 2012-05-07T20:28:55.497452

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Pierre Rudloff (rudloff) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in w3c-markup-validator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Drasla (78luphr0rnk2nuqimstywepozxn9kl19tqh0tx66b5dki1xxsh5mkz9gl21a5rlwfnr8jn6-lvdfjr0or-a811i2i3ytqlsztthjth0svbccw8inm65tmkqp9sarr553jq53in4xm1m8wn3o4rlwaer06) wrote :

Currently, w3c-markup-validator is running the W3C's validator v1.2. I was able to get HTML5 validation working by simply installing the HTML and CGI-BIN files from their most recent release, v1.3.

The code is available here:
http://validator.w3.org/validator.tar.gz

After download, you can upgrade your install by running the following commands:

tar -xvzf validator-1.3.tar.gz
sudo cp -R validator-1.3/htdocs/* /usr/share/w3c-markup-validator/html/
sudo cp validator-1.3/httpd/cgi-bin/* /usr/lib/cgi-bin/w3c-markup-validator/

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Drasla (78luphr0rnk2nuqimstywepozxn9kl19tqh0tx66b5dki1xxsh5mkz9gl21a5rlwfnr8jn6-lvdfjr0or-a811i2i3ytqlsztthjth0svbccw8inm65tmkqp9sarr553jq53in4xm1m8wn3o4rlwaer06) wrote :

My previous comment was a bit premature. In addition to upgrading the validator itself, you need to get an external HTML5 validator running. This entails two changes: building/installing the HTML5 validator, and referencing it.

Build instructions are here, however, I have had some difficulties getting this to work:
http://about.validator.nu/#src

Afterward, it should just be a matter of adding the following to the bottom of /etc/w3c/validator.conf:

<External>
  HTML5 = http://localhost:8888/html5/
</External>

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