Validator.nu I/O Error...

scove · February 1, 2013

Hi Guys,

I have just finished (I think) writing a style for the university that I am studying at, and when going to validate it gives me a bunch of warnings (which I am told to ignore), but i also get this Error: IO Error: Non-XML Content-Type: text/x-csl.

I'm assuming this is an association error, as I have associated .csl with gedit on an Ubuntu box, but it is stopping the style from validating.

Is this something that I need to be worried about, or should I just ignore it?

BTW: The style and a couple of screen shots that show my workings can be found here: http://dewie.net.au/zotero_files/

Thanks!

adamsmith · February 1, 2013

this validator is simpler & has no settings you can get wrong:
http://simonster.github.com/csl-validator.js/

I think setting the validator to xml for uploaded files might be the problem - you should set it to automatic - but as I said: just copy&paste into the csl specific validator

aurimas · February 1, 2013

Also, this is the reason why it fails: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21331/disambiguate-first-name-only-when-same-year/#Item_24

scove · February 1, 2013

Awesome, Thanks! That is what i thought might be the case... I just didn't think of changing the extension to .xml, and I even searched the forums for i/o error but that post didn't come up.

I now have it validating in both, although because the JavaScript version is telling me that 1.0.1 is an invalid version...

Thanks again for your help... Now onto the Postgrad style...

adamsmith · February 1, 2013

(don't put 1.0.1 as a version number - Rintze knows the details of why - it's related to compatiblity - but the .0.x versions aren't specified in cs:style)

scove · February 2, 2013

No worries - have changed it :)

Rintze · February 12, 2015

@scove, are you still around? We just discovered the reason for your "IO Error: Non-XML Content-Type: text/x-csl" validation error, and I was wondering which OS you were using at the time. Was it Ubuntu?

scove · February 14, 2015

Yes I am, and yes I was. Still am, and in fact, am in the process of reworking the style after a start-of-year review.

Was the error Ubuntu specific?

Rintze · February 15, 2015

No, it's not Ubuntu-specific. See https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/633 for background. In short, the validator.nu website doesn't accept the "text/x-csl" MIME type.

I'm just a bit confused how you ended up with this MIME type for .csl styles, since I couldn't find any Linux-specific code that would do that. Do you recall if you typed out the "text/x-csl" MIME type by hand when you registered ".csl" files with gedit?