Hi,

XML error:

Created <time datetime="2009-03-24T18:02:14Z" pubdate class="relativedate" title="Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:02:14 -0400">2009-03-24</time>

The pubdate REQUIRES a date, so e.g. pubdate="2009-03-24T18:02:14Z"

No, pubdate="pubdate". It's a boolean attribute. applied && done --Joey

awesome, thanks for fixing my fix --simonraven

This seems to be happening either still or again with version 3.20200202.3-1. I'm getting strings generated like

Posted <time datetime="2007-12-06T05:00:00Z" pubdate="pubdate">Thu 06 Dec 2007 12:00:00 AM EST</time>

which shows up as an error on https://validator.w3.org/ --Luke Schierer

My reading of Joey's response, above, was that (according to the spec at the time), pubdate="pubdate" is what should be generated, not pubdate="timestamp", and so what you are seeing is expected. However, looking at the current Spec (linked elsewhere in this page), pubdate is not actually a valid attribute any more at all. And indeed, running my own blog through the Validator, I see:

Error: Attribute pubdate not allowed on element time at this point. — Jon, 2020-10-05

I've filed a separate bug page for this, since this one is already marked done: pubdate not valid for html5. I've filed a patch. —Jon, 2020-10-06

Otherwise the XML parser chokes.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#attr-time-pubdate

(indented exactly 4 spaces)

    diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
    index 1f2ab07..6ab5b56 100644
    --- a/IkiWiki.pm
    +++ b/IkiWiki.pm
    @@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ sub displaytime ($;$$) {
        my $time=formattime($_[0], $_[1]);
        if ($config{html5}) {
            return '<time datetime="'.date_3339($_[0]).'"'.
    -         ($_[2] ? ' pubdate' : '').
    +           ($_[2] ? ' pubdate="'.date_3339($_[0]).'"' : '').
                '>'.$time.'</time>';
        }
        else {
    diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/relativedate.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/relativedate.pm
    index fe8ef09..8c4a1b4 100644
    --- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/relativedate.pm
    +++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/relativedate.pm
    @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ sub mydisplaytime ($;$$) {
     
        if ($config{html5}) {
            return '<time datetime="'.IkiWiki::date_3339($time).'"'.
    -         ($pubdate ? ' pubdate' : '').$mid.'</time>';
    +           ($pubdate ? ' pubdate="'.IkiWiki::date_3339($time).'"' : '').$mid.'</time>';
        }
        else {
            return '<span'.$mid.'</span>';