Thread: Sigil's Infamous "colon" Error on File Split
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Old 10-25-2016, 05:26 AM   #4
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The epubcheck error message that you got was triggered by ids that start with a number in (X)HTML or NCX files.

Sigil generated book ids that start with a number in the .opf or .ncx files won't trigger that message.

For example, I just generated a new epub2 book that was assigned a hex value that starts with number and wasn't flagged.

content.opf

Spoiler:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<package version="2.0" unique-identifier="BookId" xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
  <metadata xmlns:opf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
    <dc:identifier opf:scheme="UUID" id="BookId">urn:uuid:82daa548-a54e-4ab6-b7dd-6a987d53beff</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>de</dc:language>
    <dc:title>[No data]</dc:title>
  </metadata>
  <manifest>
    <item id="ncx" href="toc.ncx" media-type="application/x-dtbncx+xml"/>
    <item id="Section0001.xhtml" href="Text/Section0001.xhtml" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
  </manifest>
  <spine toc="ncx">
    <itemref idref="Section0001.xhtml"/>
  </spine>
  <guide>
  </guide>
</package>


toc.ncx

Spoiler:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ncx PUBLIC "-//NISO//DTD ncx 2005-1//EN"
   "http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/ncx-2005-1.dtd">
<ncx xmlns="http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/ncx/" version="2005-1">
  <head>
    <meta name="dtb:uid" content="urn:uuid:82daa548-a54e-4ab6-b7dd-6a987d53beff" />
    <meta name="dtb:depth" content="0" />
    <meta name="dtb:totalPageCount" content="0" />
    <meta name="dtb:maxPageNumber" content="0" />
  </head>
<docTitle>
  <text>Unknown</text>
</docTitle>
<navMap>
<navPoint id="navPoint-1" playOrder="1">
  <navLabel>
    <text>Start</text>
  </navLabel>
  <content src="Text/Section0001.xhtml" />
</navPoint>
</navMap>
</ncx>


If you still believe that Sigil generated ids cause epubcheck error messages, please provide step-for-step instructions that allow the developers to reproduce this issue.
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