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Old 09-26-2017, 12:32 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by slowsmile View Post
This error message would be highly confusing for any indie guy trying to get his book to pass Epubcheck. That error message tells you nothing whatsover about the problem and is highly misleading.
The only way I worked out what the real problem was was by Googling the error message and finding comments that told you.

Also found this discussion on GitHub

https://github.com/IDPF/epubcheck/is...ment-151267599
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rdeltour commented on 27 Oct 2015

Right, "XML name without colons" comes from the value of the id attribute being required to match the NCName production as required in the Namespaces in XML 1.0 spec.

This error message comes from Jing (the 3d party RelaxNG + Schematron validation engine used by EpubCheck) and as far as I remember we cannot easily override it to make it more user friendly.

See also #193, #224, #307, #533.

I'm closing as wontfix, since we do not have control over the message.
So we will continue to get this confusing and misleading error message indefinitely. Despite it not actually causing any problems except with epubcheck.


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Originally Posted by slowsmile View Post
I've just reported the Epubcheck uuid error message problem on the IDPF Epubcheck issues list on Git Hub(Issue #795).
As above, this has been reported there at least 5 times already, but it's a "wontfix".

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