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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
That's coz I use libprs500 a lot myself and I want it to be as bug free as possible :-) I essentially use all you guys as free bug hunters as bug-hunting is something I'm extremely lazy about. And those two fixes were about 10 lines of code.
But aren't those id elements referred to by some links in the rest of the file?
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Not when it's the only element inside a <p>. The regex grabs every <p> that _only_ has a single <a> in it and only if the <a> starts with "id" and has no text (only whitespace between <a> and </a>). I can't think of, nor did I see, any useful use of that particular combination. We can always make it even more picky by requiring the <a> to have no "href", but I don't think it's necessary.
Edit: Oh, you're asking if the paragraph indicators (which is what these are) are used by anything else? No. They're used in the "web" reading version to update the silly "index" box. (Check
http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/...0671318470.htm and move your mouse down the page. You can type a number into the box and it'll jump to that paragraph.) The html in the LIT doesn't have the javascript to enable this.
Note that the pure html versions don't have <p> surrounding the <a> elements, so they don't render, it's really only an issue with the files they include in their LIT versions (I suspect the OEB DTD requires the surrounding <p>).