Validation error and no idea

  • thefastcook

    (@thefastcook)


    17 years, 8 months ago

    I’m getting this error with the W3C service and it won’t show me the source code which is making it difficult to know where the error is. I figure it’s not in the templates because I haven’t made any changes and my site was fine a few weeks ago. Still for the life of me can’t figure out where in my posts it could be? Would really appreciate any help.
    My site is at: http://www.thepathofpower.com

    Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 400-403, 406-408, 414, 423-426, 511-512, 514-517, 520-521, 525, 573, 638, 668-672, 674-678, 686, 690, 692, 695-697 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.

    Oh yeah interestingly my site validates at the WDG validation site though. And people reckon I’m crazy 🙂
    any suggestions really appreciated!

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    That’s weird – it validates in FF, also!

    Lines 400 – 408:
    <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.thepathofpower.com/?p=17"
    dc:identifier="http://www.thepathofpower.com/?p=17"
    dc:title="How to Heal Depression"
    trackback:ping="http://www.thepathofpower.com/wp-trackback.php?p=17" />
    </rdf:RDF>

    </div>

    See anything weird in that? I sure don’t.

    yosemite

    (@yosemite)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    http://infomesh.net/2002/rdfinhtml/ has some good info.

    Thread Starter thefastcook

    (@thefastcook)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks Yosemite you always seem to come through with the relevant info for me. This all seems a bit over my head though. I could make sense of that article can see that I fit into the “eschew validation” section at present – but am unsure how to fix up the relevant code. I’d appreciate it if you had an idea which file I’d need to edit. Thanks.

    Sambol – I’m pretty much right there with you!

    Les Bessant

    (@lesbessant)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    There are a lot of odd characters showing in this post:

    http://www.thepathofpower.com/?p=16

    Firefox displays them as little question mark icons, which generally means that it can’t display them in the character set defined for the page.

    There may be more.

    Thread Starter thefastcook

    (@thefastcook)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    Hmm… it seems to show alright in Firefox for me. Actually none of the posts seem to show up funny for me. Although from searching for this issue on google it definitely has something to do with my encoding – haven’t got an answer yet but it seems like I’ve somehow slipped out of using the standard utf-8 code somehow but I don’t know where or how it happened.

    Thread Starter thefastcook

    (@thefastcook)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    oh right I see what you mean LesBessant – good find thanks. I’m pretty sure this has something to do with setting the encoding – anyone have any idea how to do that? I’m not cutting and pasting I’m using the editor in wordpress so it should be UTF-8 shouldn’t it?

    Thread Starter thefastcook

    (@thefastcook)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    Alright I fixed the problem for now. Thanks for your keen eyes LesBessant! For the record I went through and took out the “?”s which seemed to appear after “.” in my sentences. Now I’m pretty sure I didn’t put them in there 🙂 so I’ll pay extra attention to see if they creep their way back in.

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