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Originally Posted by KevinH
For the record, no where in the official epub3 spec that I could see does it say you should add a manifest property for something not inside the epub3 container. I realize that many people/sites say you should add a manifest item for remote resources but I could not find it in the spec anyplace. If someone can send a link to where in the spec it says it should be that way, I would love to see it. A manifest by its very nature should only include things that are actually contained there-in.
So what happens if you remove the manifest items such as these:
Code:
<item id="vid2" href="https://www.website.ext/videofile2.mp4" media-type="video/quicktime"/>
but keep the remote-resources properties on the xhtml files with source links to external resources? |
Thank you for your thoughts. What happens when I remove the manifest items is that epubcheck throws an error:
Code:
Col: 174: ERROR(RSC-008): Referenced resource is not declared in the OPF manifest.
(times 5 for 5 external links not declared)
(which made me assume that declaring external links for media files was in the spec somewhere.)
To answer your question, I cannot provide you with actual data from the spec, it was an assumption on my part.