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Clancolin · 01-11-2016, 06:17 AM

I'm trying to convert PDFs to ePub, but automatic converters produce tons of extraneous code . I'm using Sigil and checking my hand-code with Flightcrew but also trying to comply with accessibility features as much as possible.

I want to use elements like "<header>" and "<section>" and "epub:type" attributes. If possible, I'd like to have a sort of standard template, that once created, will allow me to just paste text from the PDFs into the relevant sections of the ePub.

I was ok with doctypes and schema with html4 and xhtml, but if I ignore namespace doctypes in html5 and use "<!DOCTYPE html>", that produces multiple different types of errors from Flightcrew.

I want to avoid obsolete code, so how much - if any - of this lot is needed to be able to enable the elements and attributes I want to use?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<html xmlns

ps=" http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Thanks.

01-11-2016, 06:17 AM	#1
Clancolin Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Hampshire, UK Device: Pocketbook Aqua 2	Epub Doctype, Schema and Metadata? I'm trying to convert PDFs to ePub, but automatic converters produce tons of extraneous code . I'm using Sigil and checking my hand-code with Flightcrew but also trying to comply with accessibility features as much as possible. I want to use elements like "<header>" and "<section>" and "epub:type" attributes. If possible, I'd like to have a sort of standard template, that once created, will allow me to just paste text from the PDFs into the relevant sections of the ePub. I was ok with doctypes and schema with html4 and xhtml, but if I ignore namespace doctypes in html5 and use "<!DOCTYPE html>", that produces multiple different types of errors from Flightcrew. I want to avoid obsolete code, so how much - if any - of this lot is needed to be able to enable the elements and attributes I want to use? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <html xmlnsps=" http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops"> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> Thanks.