A problem with my link to the style sheet

Warbird Books · 04-10-2014, 08:44 AM

I have built several e-books with Sigil, but now encounter an error that baffles me. When I run Flight Crew, I get this error for every single file:

element 'link' is not allowed for content model '(#PCDATA)'

referring to this line in the <head>:

<link href="../Styles/epub.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

which is identical to the style sheet link in my other books.

Where did I go wrong?

Thanks!

Toxaris · 04-10-2014, 09:16 AM

Is the <link> tag positioned correctly? Did you not accidentally put it between the <body> tags?

Warbird Books · 04-10-2014, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toxaris

Is the <link> tag positioned correctly? Did you not accidentally put it between the <body> tags?

No, it's up there in the head. Here is the entire start of each file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link href="../Styles/hawks.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body> etc.

DiapDealer · 04-10-2014, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Warbird Books

Here is the entire start of each file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link href="../Styles/hawks.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body> etc.

You truly have no title element at all in any of your files?

I copy your code exactly (and create a hawks.css file) and paste it into a new Sigil epub and don't get any errors except for the one about "missing elements in content model" (which is because of the missing title element).

Warbird Books · 04-10-2014, 04:18 PM

I put in a title and got the same set of errors. Then I realized that one file (the first) was actually not on the list, and that was the one I had copied for you. The others had one additional line, preceding the link to the style sheet, viz:

<style type="text/css">

So I see that the "type" was stated twice, once in that line and again in the actual link to the style sheet.

I removed the line in 12 files, ran Flight Crew, and got No problems found!

So thank you! All is now well.

(I never got an error about the missing title, but perhaps I would have done on epubcheck.)

04-10-2014, 08:44 AM	#1
Warbird Books Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: Kindle Fire	A problem with my link to the style sheet I have built several e-books with Sigil, but now encounter an error that baffles me. When I run Flight Crew, I get this error for every single file: element 'link' is not allowed for content model '(#PCDATA)' referring to this line in the <head>: <link href="../Styles/epub.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> which is identical to the style sheet link in my other books. Where did I go wrong? Thanks!

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Toxaris Wizard Posts: 4,520 Karma: 121692313 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Heemskerk, NL Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura	Is the <link> tag positioned correctly? Did you not accidentally put it between the <body> tags?

04-10-2014, 04:18 PM	#5
Warbird Books Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: Kindle Fire	I put in a title and got the same set of errors. Then I realized that one file (the first) was actually not on the list, and that was the one I had copied for you. The others had one additional line, preceding the link to the style sheet, viz: <style type="text/css"> So I see that the "type" was stated twice, once in that line and again in the actual link to the style sheet. I removed the line in 12 files, ran Flight Crew, and got No problems found! So thank you! All is now well. (I never got an error about the missing title, but perhaps I would have done on epubcheck.)