Generated HTML5 fails validation.

[drguildo]

By default DocPad seeems to insert the following header into generated HTML:

<meta http-equiv=\"X-Powered-By\" content=\"DocPad v" + docpad.version + "\"/>

which causes it to fail validation using the W3C Validation Service. This is even the case using the HTML5 skeleton.

[greduan]

It shouldn't generate that... It should generate something like this:

<meta http-equiv="X-Powered-By" content="DocPad v6.50.0">

[drguildo]

Yeah, that's kinda what I was getting at. That is the final output and it is invalid HTML5 according to the W3C validator.

[balupton]

That's really strange, that's the first time I've seen it output that.

Are you able to provide us with a link to your project source code? If not, could you zip it up and email it to support@docpad.org and I'll take a look. Cheers!

[drguildo]

I think there are crossed wires. It outputs what Greduan said, I was just quoting the code itself.

node_modules/docpad/out/lib/docpad.js:      meta.add("<meta http-equiv=\"X-Powered-By\" content=\"DocPad v" + docpad.version + "\"/>");

Anyway, my point is that the validator rejects it.

[balupton]

Hrmm, that source line of code works as expected, and should output <meta http-equiv="X-Powered-By" content="DocPad v6.50.0"> correctly, this is because the backslashes are necessary to keep the string going due to the string being wrapped in double quotes so we must "escape" the double quotes used in the string. For instance:

console.log("Hello "Ben" how are you today?");
// will fail as the string will be seen as "Hello ", then the literal Ben, then the string " how are you today?")

console.log("Hello \"Ben\" how are you today?");
// will work, as the escapes allow us to continue the string, outputting: Hello "Ben" How are you today?

[drguildo]

Third time lucky: it does output what it is supposed to. My point is that it that

<meta http-equiv="X-Powered-By" content="DocPad v6.50.0">

is not valid HTML and the W3C validator complains about it.

[balupton]

Can confirm. Looking into it now:

[balupton]

Should be <meta name="generator" content="DocPad v6.50.0" /> instead it seems (that format is what wikipedia uses). Will fix now.

[balupton]

Fixed with the just released v6.50.1. Awesome work. Thanks for reporting!