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user_none · 04-23-2012, 10:12 PM

To fully answer this question. Yes, self closing tags (a and div elements in this example) is perfectly valid according to the EPUB spec. The following example conforms to the EPUB 2 spec.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!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>
  <title/>
</head>

<body>
<p>
  <a id="blah" />
</p>

<div id="blah1" />

<div id="blah2" class="clearfix" />
</body>
</html>

The relevant sections of the EPUB 2 Spec are 1.4.1.2 and Appendix A. XHTML 1.1 does allow self closing tags as used above. Specifically Appendix a requires that the document validate against the XHTML 1.1 DTD.

04-23-2012, 10:12 PM	#6
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,487 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	To fully answer this question. Yes, self closing tags (a and div elements in this example) is perfectly valid according to the EPUB spec. The following example conforms to the EPUB 2 spec. Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!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> <title/> </head> <body> <p> <a id="blah" /> </p> <div id="blah1" /> <div id="blah2" class="clearfix" /> </body> </html> The relevant sections of the EPUB 2 Spec are 1.4.1.2 and Appendix A. XHTML 1.1 does allow self closing tags as used above. Specifically Appendix a requires that the document validate against the XHTML 1.1 DTD.