Project DescriptionThis tool is an attempt to make the development and testing of OpenSearch and Internet Explorer 8 Visual Search feeds a bit easier. It is developed purely from my own experiences of what does and doesn't actually work.
It can been seen in action at
http://opensearchvalidator.comA
general test outline has been documented, but most of the interesting validations are done by XSD.
Some cool ones to check out are:
- hanselman.com, who has his SearchForm element in the wrong namespace at the time of writing
- wikipedia.org, who are serving their visual search suggestions with the wrong media type at the time of writing
- au.yahoo.com, who are serving their OpenSearch description with the wrong media type at the time of writing
- bing.com, who don’t even publish a feed at the time of writing
- graysonline.com, who currently publish a valid feed
- blindsearch.fejus.com, who currently publish a (mostly) valid OpenSearch description