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Originally Posted by sallyember
Can't any of you explain to me in plain language what these two errors mean and how to fix them in MS Word itself? I am computer savvy, but not code savvy.
1 = 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.
2 = 27 times in toc.ncx
Error while parsing file 'value of attribute "id" is invalid; must be an XML name without colons'.
Thanks.
Sally
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Sally:
FYI: I'm a professional converter of eBooks, making ebooks from crap of all kinds--Word, OO, LO, PDF, you name it. I have NO idea how to fix what you are looking at, in SW, in your source file. There's simply no way to know.
Here are some ideas--but they're not very good ones: did you underline anything in the manuscript? That MIGHT be the first error. The second one? Did you perchance put bookmarks in the file? And if you did, were they numbered, instead of alpha? For example, "3" as a bookmark for Chapter 3?
Note: I do NOT think that what I've suggested is what's wrong, actually. I'm utterly air-balling here. This is a weird error, as Smashwords uses the Calibre API to "meatgrind" books. You either need to go back through your Word file, and clean it up, in accordance with the dreaded SW Style Guide--EXACTLY--or you are going to need to open that sucker up in an ePUB editor like Sigil. or Calibre's ePUB editor. I'm sorry to tell you that, but the previous posters aren't jerking you around--as Phil said, it's like trying to turn hamburger back into the cow. There's just no way to diagnose what's happened here, not just from the error messages. Sorry.
Hitch