MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Sigil's Infamous "colon" Error on File Split

slowsmile · 10-25-2016, 05:40 AM

I'm not talking about TOCs or Book ids.

I'm talking about the 32 char uid that is generated when you do a file split. Please can you forget about TOCs and ebook uids. Your travelling down the wrong road.

Try this. Open an ebook of yours in Sigil. Then choose a file in the Book Browser and split that file anywhere you like using the File Splitter button in the Sigil Toolbar. After you have split the file, check the content.opf and you will see the rather large uid that has been automatically generated in the spine and in the manifest because of the file split. That's what I'm talking about. And if that large uid -- which is indeed automatically generated by Sigil -- starts with a numeric digit then it will fail IDPF Epubcheck validation online and will give you the "colon" error. Try it for yourself.

10-25-2016, 05:40 AM	#5
slowsmile Witchman Posts: 628 Karma: 788808 Join Date: May 2013 Location: Philippines Device: Android S5	I'm not talking about TOCs or Book ids. I'm talking about the 32 char uid that is generated when you do a file split. Please can you forget about TOCs and ebook uids. Your travelling down the wrong road. Try this. Open an ebook of yours in Sigil. Then choose a file in the Book Browser and split that file anywhere you like using the File Splitter button in the Sigil Toolbar. After you have split the file, check the content.opf and you will see the rather large uid that has been automatically generated in the spine and in the manifest because of the file split. That's what I'm talking about. And if that large uid -- which is indeed automatically generated by Sigil -- starts with a numeric digit then it will fail IDPF Epubcheck validation online and will give you the "colon" error. Try it for yourself. Last edited by slowsmile; 10-25-2016 at 05:52 AM.