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Old 03-09-2010, 02:44 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
What I'm trying to say is that the things that epubcheck checks are those things that it is easiest to write software to check, not those things that are most likely to cause problems, or those things that are most likely to occur in the wild.
I don't think anyone would disagree with this. Epubcheck will not find the serious errors, but it will find the simple ones. So why not fix the simple ones?

As others have noted, it's a sanity check. Passing epubcheck doesn't mean your file doesn't have problems, but not passing it means it does in 99% of cases.

Again, epubcheck will scream on even trivial things you can safely ignore, but if you're trying to build an error-free epub, why not fix those?
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