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Originally Posted by bookman156
So an XHTML document that is not 'well-formed' can still validate?
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That depends on the validator, or precisely on the doctype and dtd that it's validated against.
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Originally Posted by bookman156
For instance, in my original EPUB which I received from the publisher there is unclosed anchor code like this:
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Actually, that tag shouldn't have passed validation, because the closing tag is missing or it must be self-closing:
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<a id="page_121" />
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Originally Posted by bookman156
which validates at W3C ...
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W3C validation doesn't mean anything. If you want to release commercial books they'll need to pass ePubCheck.
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Originally Posted by bookman156
I didn't realise that Sigil makes changes to the EPUB that I haven't specifically made, but I guess this is because it is making it 'well-formed'? Interesting.
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Sigil will usually convert self-closing tags to tags with a closing tag. AFAIK, this is automatically done by the Gumbo parser and has nothing to do with well-formedness.