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sallyember · 12-09-2015, 10:58 AM

My epub is failing at Smashwords for these two errors (both appear more than once in the error list, but only two errors). I am not a coder. I do not understand nor do I have software to work directly with epub (Calibre, In Design, etc., not owned and do not want). Smashwords uploads my MS Word (via Open Office) doc and converts to epub then tells me if it passes or not. This document passed last month. I made some edits and resubmitted and now it is riddled with errors it didn't have before and I don't know how to fix them in MS Word. HELP? The two errors are: "Error while parsing file 'value of attribute "id" is invalid; must be an XML name without colons'." (appears 27 times!?! in toc.ncx) and "Error while parsing file 'element "span" not allowed here; expected element "address", "blockquote", "del", "div", "dl", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "ins", "noscript", "ns:svg", "ol", "p", "pre", "script", "table" or "ul" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")'." (appears twice in
tmp_6ecc9056e25d1ed623c17fc818afa7b4_pocC0b.ch.fix ed.fc.tidied.stylehacked.xfixed_split_004.html). Thanks!

12-09-2015, 10:58 AM	#12
sallyember Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Missouri, USA Device: Kindle and Desktop Dell	My epub is failing at Smashwords for these two errors (both appear more than once in the error list, but only two errors). I am not a coder. I do not understand nor do I have software to work directly with epub (Calibre, In Design, etc., not owned and do not want). Smashwords uploads my MS Word (via Open Office) doc and converts to epub then tells me if it passes or not. This document passed last month. I made some edits and resubmitted and now it is riddled with errors it didn't have before and I don't know how to fix them in MS Word. HELP? The two errors are: "Error while parsing file 'value of attribute "id" is invalid; must be an XML name without colons'." (appears 27 times!?! in toc.ncx) and "Error while parsing file 'element "span" not allowed here; expected element "address", "blockquote", "del", "div", "dl", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "ins", "noscript", "ns:svg", "ol", "p", "pre", "script", "table" or "ul" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")'." (appears twice in tmp_6ecc9056e25d1ed623c17fc818afa7b4_pocC0b.ch.fix ed.fc.tidied.stylehacked.xfixed_split_004.html). Thanks! Last edited by sallyember; 12-09-2015 at 03:40 PM.