validators

<entry-title>microformats validators</entry-title>

general purpose validators

The following validators will validate multiple microformats on a page:

Optimus

Main article: Optimus

Optimus is a microformats transformer and validator that supports numerous microformats including hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom (note: hAtom validation issues).

Get the Optimus microformats validator favelet. Blog post: validator browser button.

Please add issues to the optimus-issues page.

specific microformats validators

hCard Validator

• The unofficial hCard Validator

  It's open-source and contributions are welcome! Please join the project and extend it to support more microformats.

  Operator Debugger

  Main article: Operator
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/

  microformats: hCard, hCalendar

  Operator does a good job of compliant parsing for microformats in general, and includes a debug mode that can help identify errors in the structure.

  rel-lint

  • http://tools.microformatic.com/help/xhtml/rel-lint/

  Rel-Lint provides linting and inspection of rel-tag and XFN (by Drew McLellan)

  validator project

  There has been a suggestion to host an "official" microformats validator at microformats.org.

  Ideas:

  • ...

  Who wants to help make this happen, and what do you need?

  • ...

  related

  • debugging-tools
  • implementations
  • tests
  • test-suite