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Originally Posted by mdpeterson42
OK, so my new issue is the following error:
Error while parsing file: element "a" not allowed here; expected element "address", "blockquote", "del", "div", "dl", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "ins", "noscript", "ns:svg", "ol", "p", "pre", "script", "table" or "ul" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")
This is in reference to a line that was a location for a link elsewhere in the book. In the HTML code, I used:
<a name="TCOOS"> <p class="subtitle">THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE</P>
In calibre, it changed that to:
<a id="TCOOS"> <p class="subtitle" id="calibre_toc_16">THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE</p>
<p class="subsubtitle" id="calibre_toc_17">
I assume I can't just take out "a" but I am not sure what to replace it with.
Thank you! |
You have to surround the <a>...</a> with a block level element such as <div> or <p>. Right now you don't seem to even have the closing </a> required (ePub does not allow unclosed elements though most web browsers will disregard them. Not to mention that name="..." is not valid in ePub2 but is valid in ePub3.
For ePub 3, a file with the <a name="TCOOS"> by itself checked by epubcheck give a:
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FATAL(RSC-016): Fatal Error while parsing file: The element type "a" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</a>".
so <a name="TCOOS"></a> does not trigger an error.
For ePub 2, a file with the <a name="TCOOS"> by itself checked by epubcheck gives 3 error messages:
Code:
ERROR(RSC-005): Error while parsing file: attribute "name" not allowed here; expected attribute "accesskey", "charset", "class", "coords", "dir", "href", "hreflang", "id", "lang", "rel", "rev", "shape", "style", "tabindex", "target", "title", "type" or "xml:lang"
ERROR(RSC-005): Error while parsing file: element "a" not allowed here; expected element "address", "blockquote", "del", "div", "dl", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "ins", "noscript", "ns:svg", "ol", "p", "pre", "script", "table" or "ul" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")
FATAL(RSC-016): Fatal Error while parsing file: The element type "a" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</a>".
Adding the </a> for ePub 2 doesn't help much since the <a>...</a> must be inside a block level element (div, p, see the documentation for the full list).
Generally, I find converting an ePub3 input file to an output ePub2 file with calibre is a total pain. Setting the EPUB output to output version 3 helps but still not a great experience.