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AlanHK · 09-20-2017, 05:14 AM

Epubcheck complains if the navpoint ids in the toc.ncx begin with a digit.

e.g:

Code:

<navPoint class="chapter" id="23b2a4fa-6968-47cd-a55b-68ec2650ccde" playOrder="3">
      <navLabel>
        <text>A Reminiscence of Dr Samuel Johnson</text>
      </navLabel>
      <content src="Text/story05.html"/>
</navPoint>

I've looked and can't find any other reference to this id in the ncx, opf or any xhtml file, so I assume they are arbitrary and only need to be unique.

So I just prepended an X to all the ids and it passed epubcheck and seemed OK.

Code:

 id="X23b2a4fa-6968-47cd-a55b-68ec2650ccde"

What are these ids used for anyway?

09-20-2017, 05:14 AM	#1
AlanHK Guru Posts: 681 Karma: 929286 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: PW-3, iPad, Android phone	navpoint ids and epubcheck Epubcheck complains if the navpoint ids in the toc.ncx begin with a digit. e.g: Code: <navPoint class="chapter" id="23b2a4fa-6968-47cd-a55b-68ec2650ccde" playOrder="3"> <navLabel> <text>A Reminiscence of Dr Samuel Johnson</text> </navLabel> <content src="Text/story05.html"/> </navPoint> I've looked and can't find any other reference to this id in the ncx, opf or any xhtml file, so I assume they are arbitrary and only need to be unique. So I just prepended an X to all the ids and it passed epubcheck and seemed OK. Code: id="X23b2a4fa-6968-47cd-a55b-68ec2650ccde" What are these ids used for anyway? Last edited by AlanHK; 09-20-2017 at 05:18 AM.