I believe I've been seeing the same thing as the OP. I don't read in calibre, and I don't get the error anywhere else, so I've pretty much just been ignoring it so far.
But I can tell you it started with either version 0.9.7 or 0.9.8. Books that had shown no errors before that started showing the error when viewed in those versions and later--and it's a LOT of books, all from retail copies. It's always on the cover page. Epubcheck it says they validate, fwiw.
Here's an example. I don't really know what to look for as far as problems.
Code:
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<head>
<title>A Book Title</title>
<link href="../styles/0000000000000.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<meta content="urn:uuid:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" name="Adept.expected.resource"/>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<svg:svg viewBox="0 0 1243 1600">
<svg:image height="1600" transform="translate(0 0)" width="1243" xlink:href="../images/0000000000000.jpg"/>
</svg:svg>
</div>
</body>
</html>