How to validate HTML5 code with Flymake effectively

2014-12-05 13:00 | Source

UPDATED: <2014-12-11 Thu>

CREATED: <2014-12-05 Fri>

I found it not effective because tidy is too strict to HTML5 and produces too much noise.

I only need validation of missing open/closed html tag(s). Nothing more!

So here is my complete solution:

(defun flymake-html-init ()
       (let* ((temp-file (flymake-init-create-temp-buffer-copy
                          'flymake-create-temp-inplace))
              (local-file (file-relative-name
                           temp-file
                           (file-name-directory buffer-file-name))))
         (list "tidy" (list local-file))))

(defun flymake-html-load ()
  (interactive)
  (when (and (not (null buffer-file-name)) (file-writable-p buffer-file-name))
    (set (make-local-variable 'flymake-allowed-file-name-masks)
         '(("\\.html\\|\\.ctp\\|\\.ftl\\|\\.jsp\\|\\.php\\|\\.erb\\|\\.rhtml" flymake-html-init))
         )
    (set (make-local-variable 'flymake-err-line-patterns)
         ;; only validate missing html tags
         '(("line \\([0-9]+\\) column \\([0-9]+\\) - \\(Warning\\|Error\\): \\(missing <\/[a-z0-9A-Z]+>.*\\|discarding unexpected.*\\)" nil 1 2 4))
         )
    (flymake-mode t)))

(add-hook 'web-mode-hook 'flymake-html-load)
(add-hook 'html-mode-hook 'flymake-html-load)
(add-hook 'nxml-mode-hook 'flymake-html-load)
(add-hook 'php-mode-hook 'flymake-html-load)

The only difference from EmacsWiki is only one line:

'(("line \\([0-9]+\\) column \\([0-9]+\\) - \\(Warning\\|Error\\): \\(missing <\/[a-z0-9A-Z]+>.*\\|discarding unexpected.*\\)" nil 1 2 4))