1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/t.validate-xhtml b/t.validate-xhtml
index d66fc98f..bf55f4fb 100755
--- a/t.validate-xhtml
+++ b/t.validate-xhtml
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@ set -eu
 e=0
 fail=
 IFS=$(printf '\n\t')
+
+# smoke test validator and skip if it fails
+cat - <<'_EOF'  | xmllint 2>/dev/null --nonet --postvalid --noout - || exit 77
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+    <head><title /></head><body></body></html>
+_EOF
+
 for i in "${srcdir}"/*.html ; do
     case "$i" in */fetchmail-man.html) continue ;; esac
     xmllint --postvalid --noout "$i" || { e=1 ; fail="$i${fail:+" "}$fail" ; }