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leijoninna · 05-20-2013, 02:27 PM

I've been working on creating my very first fixed layout ePub3 for iBooks. After a lot of tweaking, I managed to get the epubcheck errors down to only one, and it doesn't make the file less functional:

element "nav" not allowed anywhere; expected the element end-tag or element "bindings"

This refers to the "landmarks" section in the opf file. I read on other forums and in documentation that the guide section has been deprecated and should be replaced with the landmarks. I've kept the guide section for backwards compatibility.

I also found one article from about a year ago that referred to the landmarks section as not really being used by most readers (including iBooks). I tried my book on iPad, Readium an AZARDI, and none of them seem to really take any notice of neither the guide nor the landmarks section. For example, my "ibooks:reader-start-page" was completely ignored by all readers despite declaring the ibooks prefix.

So what is best practice here? Just go with the guide section, or keep landmarks and ignore the epubcheck error?

(btw, AZARDI makes my book look weird since it makes the front page the first odd page, and my first odd page an even page. Messes up all my two-page spreads…)

05-20-2013, 02:27 PM	#1
leijoninna Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2013 Device: iPad3	fixed layout landmarks issue I've been working on creating my very first fixed layout ePub3 for iBooks. After a lot of tweaking, I managed to get the epubcheck errors down to only one, and it doesn't make the file less functional: element "nav" not allowed anywhere; expected the element end-tag or element "bindings" This refers to the "landmarks" section in the opf file. I read on other forums and in documentation that the guide section has been deprecated and should be replaced with the landmarks. I've kept the guide section for backwards compatibility. I also found one article from about a year ago that referred to the landmarks section as not really being used by most readers (including iBooks). I tried my book on iPad, Readium an AZARDI, and none of them seem to really take any notice of neither the guide nor the landmarks section. For example, my "ibooks:reader-start-page" was completely ignored by all readers despite declaring the ibooks prefix. So what is best practice here? Just go with the guide section, or keep landmarks and ignore the epubcheck error? (btw, AZARDI makes my book look weird since it makes the front page the first odd page, and my first odd page an even page. Messes up all my two-page spreads…)