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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Hi Hitch. How much do hobbyists have to worry about validation?
I don't have to pass a validation to upload a book, so my only concern is whether the book would actually fail to work. Does the validation failure actually mean the book will fail to display correctly in some devices? Or is that just the distributors being anal?
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Hey, Gran:
Just distributors being anal. But please note: depending on the place you're uploading, (say, for example, Smashwords, which uses an older validation check), they may get rejections up/downstream, when they send same book to (for example) Nook/Kobobooks.
The error isn't an error. The error is a bug. It's a bug in ePUBcheck 3.01. There's nothing wrong with the book itself, although the stuff we used to all use the xpgt for is now redundant with the upgrades made to ADE since--what, guys, 2.0? It was really needed in ADE 1.x, because otherwise, the text ran to the margins and all sorts of other peculiar stuff. So, generally speaking, you SHOULD (famous last Hitch words) be able to yank the xpgt out of your book and it SHOULD be no harm, no foul.
OTOH, as I said: no, the "error" is just a bug in the actual ePUBchecker. For whatever reason, it doesn't see the fallback CSS sheet you have in your book. We can all only hope that 3.02 will fix it, BUT, the distributors change ePUBcheck like glaciers dance, so even if 3.02 came out tomorrow, KoboBooks et al mightn't move to 3.02 for a year or more.
Does that answer your question?
Hitch