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HTML5 Recipes: Form Validation

We shall conclude looking at HTML5 form features by discussing form validation in this recipe. Form validation is an important feature of any web application that takes input from the user. To validate form data before submission to the server...

The iCalendar chicken-and-egg conundrum

If you're a school or a business or a band or a club whose website sports an Events tab that doesn't offer a companion iCalendar feed, I hope you'll ask your CMS vendor why not.

Form Validation with jQuery

Form validation using jQuery

Validating Operator Grammars in Schematron

Operator Grammars is a linguistic theory that we can adopt (or be inspired by, or perhaps dumb-down) for validation purposes. We don't need more information than is in the Wikipedia summary: we want to suggest Schematron features that can handle...

Validation in Flex with Hamcrest-AS3

Hamcrest? No, it isn't a fancy sandwich topping. Hamcrest is a framework for creating matchers, allowing matching rules to be defined declaratively (from Wikipedia). Hamcrest has been used by many popular unit testing frameworks including JUnit and FlexUnit 4. Hamcrest-AS3...

Validating Code Lists with Schematron

How happy the man whose documents are clearly divided into variant and invariant: data versus schemas. But in the real world, often there are data values or structures which have fixed choices, but not completely fixed: a twilight zone. Here is a summary of various ways of validating lists using Schematron, including how to validate data values that are drawn from multiple external glossaries.