XML Validation Tips And Solutions
XML Validation Tips and Solutions
Summary: XML Validation Tips discusses errors in WordPress often come from confusing XML and HTML tagging structures, HTML tag nesting, flaws in Widget code and Plugin code, and trying to use a HTML4 Validator with HMTL5 code.
One of the most common sources of XML validation errors we come across are widget add-ons available from 3rd parties, for example old Amazon.com widgets.
Reference: http://blog.twighlightzone.com/index.php?entry=entry080220-195229
While many of these errors can be corrected in the code, it doesn’t do you any good if you constantly update your plugins, if the Author hasn’t bothered to correct their code from revision to revision!
This is an ongoing updated document, because … the topic is a moving target.
XML Validation Tips: Fast Secure Contact Form
If you have been scratch your cranium on this error thrown by the Fast Secure Contact Form, here is the solution Per Mike Challis: “This is because input type email isn’t in HTML4 specification. It’s a specification from HTML5, but the validator work’s on HTML4 standard and will show the error when validating forms with input type email.”
XML Validation Tips Error type="email"
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