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Old 04-18-2014, 07:05 AM   #8
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I think it has some value, but definitely not the value that most people or websites think. It can help you to find issues though if things don't work.
What you need for that is a tool that checks the book for known causes of error. Not a mindless tool that validates it against a DTD. The only reason epub validation exists at all is because, it is, quite literally, the simplest thing to program a tool that check HTML against a DTD and pops up lots of meaningless errors, as opposed to writing a tool that intelligently checks the HTML for things that are known to be problematic in real world usage.
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