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Old 12-28-2016, 02:09 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by cedhax View Post
I thought I read it somewhere else too, but can't it on the official EPUB site. So I am not 100% sure about it. Can you give me a pointer? Thanks.
Epub3 books are based on the HTML5 XHTML syntax and HTML5 XHTML files mustn't contain named entities. (XHTML is based on XML and XML only supports 5 predefined entities.)

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Originally Posted by W3C
Note: According to the XML specification, XML processors are not guaranteed to process the external DTD subset referenced in the DOCTYPE. This means, for example, that using entity references for characters in XHTML documents is unsafe if they are defined in an external file (except for <, >, &, " and ').
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
You do not need to make ePub 3 eBooks for iBooks. You can make ePub 2 eBooks.
You need to create epub3 books, if you want to sell on iBooks.
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