From: "Bjørn Arild Mæland" <bjorn.maeland@...>
Date: 2009-06-14T02:05:07+09:00
Subject: Re: markup_validity 1.0.0 Released

> markup_validity version 1.0.0 has been released!
>
> * <http://github.com/tenderlove/markup_validity>
>
> MarkupValidity provides test/unit and rspec helpers for checking the validity
> of your documents.  Shortcuts for verifying xhtml-transitional and
> xhtml-strict documents are provided as well.  MarkupValidity will not only
> tell you when your document is invalid, but it will tell you what it *should*
> be.
>
> Changes:
>
> ### 1.0.0 / 2009-06-11
>
> * 1 major enhancement
>
>   * Birthday!
>
> ## FEATURES/PROBLEMS:
>
> * Make sure that markup_validity is required *after* test/unit, or mix
>   MarkupValidity::Assertions in to your test class yourself.
> * Currently AWESOME!
>
> ## SYNOPSIS:
>
>   ###
>   # test/unit example
>   require 'test/unit'
>   require 'rubygems'
>   require 'markup_validity'
>
>   class ValidHTML < Test::Unit::TestCase
>     def test_i_can_has_valid_xhtml
>       assert_xhtml_transitional xhtml_document
>     end
>   end
>
>   ###
>   # rspec example
>   require 'rubygems'
>   require 'markup_validity'
>
>   describe "my XHTML document" do
>     it "can has transitional xhtml" do
>       xhtml_document.should be_xhtml_transitional
>     end
>   end
>
>   ###
>   # Rails controller test example
>   require 'test_helper'
>   require 'markup_validity'
>
>   class AwesomeControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
>     test "valid markup" do
>       get :new
>       assert_xhtml_transitional @response.body
>     end
>   end
>
>   ###
>   # Here is an example error report
>
>   Error on line: 7:
>   Element 'p': This element is not expected. Expected is one of ( a, br, span, bdo, object, applet, img, map, iframe, tt ).
>
>   6:     <p>
>   7:       <p>
>   8:         Yo dawg, I heard you like p-tags
>   9:       </p>
>   10:     </p>
>   .
>   <false> is not true.
>
> ## REQUIREMENTS:
>
> * depends on nokogiri
>
> ## INSTALL:
>
> * gem install markup_validity
>
> * <http://github.com/tenderlove/markup_validity>
>
> --
> Aaron Pattersonhttp://tenderlovemaking.com/

Thanks for this nice gem! I've started using it on a site, but I ran
into problems with pages containing HTML entities. My workaround is
described here: http://chrononaut.net/2009/06/13/markup_validity_and_entities.html

-Bjørn