Category Archives: ccValidator

ccValidator Updated

Looking in the archive, I see that I haven’t blogged about ccValidator in over six months. Because there was nothing to blog about. Today I updated ccValidator with a handful of bug fixes and a nifty make over. The bugs generally surrounded the decoding and detection of Unicode character sets. Several [...]

validator.creativecommons.org Now Available

I’m pleased to announce that ccValidator now has a new home. validator.creativecommons.org is the new home for the Creative Commons RDF validator. Yergler.net will continue to host development efforts, and I’ll continue to post announcements regarding ccV improvements and service here. Thanks to the Creative Commons for hosting this service going forward.

Development Update

As I mentioned before, I’ve been hacking on an update of ccValidator. Well, more than an update: a complete refactoring, really. The small item that prompted this was the ability to validate pages whose RDF is specified in a tag instead of an HTML comment. I haven’t even addressed that yet :). [...]

ccValidator Refactoring

It’s been pointed out that ccValidator only supports RDF embedded in an HTML comment, and not any of the other officially sanctioned ways. Most asked for is support, which seems to be used quite a bit. I started to refactor the validator today to support LINKed RDF. I’ve talked about it [...]

ccValidator 1.3.1 Update Now Available

As promised yesterday, I’ve updated ccValidator with a minor update. The source, as always, is available in the release archive. This release exposes some validation errors which were previously masked as “unknown errors”. These updates provide more verbose error reporting in instances where the RDF is well-formed XML, but not properly structured [...]

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States