Currently we report "success".

See https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Validator.nu_JSON_Output#The_.22type.22_string

I've just tried validating a style against the 1.0.1 schema, and I'm getting this error:

Validation failed: HTTP resource not retrievable. The HTTP status from the remote server was: 404.

Reused macro names pass with flying colours. Testing it out, citeproc-js uses the first definition, but the validator should flag reuse, else this could lead to some head scratching...

Can you say something about the licence for this code?

https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Last time when validator.nu was down the validator beach-balled forever.

This may be what you mentioned earlier, not sure. After uploading a local file to the validator, if you refresh the page in the browser, the selection persists in history (it still says "File Upload"), but the button is replaced with an input field (I guess for the URL). The button should also persist.

@rmzelle
I tried to validate a style through "File Upload", and got an error :
-With the in-house validator ( validator.citationstyles.org/? ) : "Validation failed: Non-XML Content-Type: “text/x-csl”."
-With validator.nu, "IO Error: Non-XML Content-Type: text/x-csl."

Thanks

Looks like NU validator is still up -- maybe related to move to https?

The link here

should go to http://validator.citationstyles.org/ instead of just http://citationstyles.org/.

Now that we have http://formatter.citationstyles.org/ (https://github.com/citation-style-language/formatter), which reformats styles similar to https://github.com/citation-style-language/utilities/blob/master/csl-reindenting-and-info-reordering.py, and allows validation against the stricter https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/blob/master/csl-repository.rnc, I'm wondering what the best workflows would be to guide users towards a style submission.

I could keep http://validator.citationstyles.org/ as the landing page. When a user tests a style that doesn't generate validation errors, we currently provide a link to https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md. We could replace this with a link to a wizard/form that helps the user follow https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Style-Requirements. We can also offer validation results against csl-repository.rnc, and show a textarea box with the reformatted style, and perhaps a download button to save it to disk.

I know @fbennett already played with a way to directly create a GitHub pull request from a webpage, but that seems like a later worry.

As a personal reminder, I have a little bit of RunKit code that shows the latest libraries in https://cdnjs.com/, which makes it easier to spot which of the JS libraries in the CSL validator, formatter, and my ref-extractor are out-of-date:

https://runkit.com/rmzelle/59e0e574834ff30012743623