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Old 02-25-2009, 07:32 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Almost all EPUB files you will encounter in the wild are vanilla HTML plus about 50 lines of XML to describe the book metadata. The EPUB standard certainly supports more than vanilla HTML, but if you want to use it for archival, there is no reason to use anything other than vanilla HTML
Please let's not equate XHTML and HTML. Building an XHTML parser is trivial, whereas for HTML, it becomes ridiculously complex.

The epub standard does not support "vanilla" HTML at all.
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