[OpenID] XRD/YADIS validator?
Dick Hardt
dick at sxip.com
Thu Jan 4 00:50:46 UTC 2007
Hi Sam
Good to see you have interest in OpenID et al. As others have noted,
there is tons of value in a validator.
If I could make a suggestion, the starting point for validation would
be really useful if it was the OpenID (be it an i-name or URL).
This may be more then what you want to do with the Feed Validator,
but We[1] would be happy to work with you on that!
-- Dick
[1] That of course of course is the Royal We that includes people on
my team, JanRain's team and other members of the community since I
don't get to write code anymore myself. :-)
On 3-Jan-07, at 2:09 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:
> Would people on this list see value in a XRD/YADIS validator?
>
> If syndication is any guide, once the "unwashed masses" start adopting
> this, I see plenty of opportunities for errors: non-memorable
> namespace
> names, MiXeDcAsE Element names, etc.
>
> If there is value, what I would find helpful is suggestions in the
> form
> of test cases: documents which either are asserted to be valid, or
> documents which contain specified conditions that should produce a
> specific error or a warning.
>
> An example of a warnings could be "unknown Type": in theory, any
> URI is
> valid, but unknown Types may indicate a typo.
>
> Checks can also be made for the presence of elements such as
> openid:Delegate when Type is other than http://openid.net/signon/1.0.
>
> Given such tests, I can quickly build this logic on top of the
> foundation that is the Feed Validator: it already has logic for what
> constitutes a valid URI (or IRI, for that matter).
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
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