Thread: Smashwords "id" issue
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Old 05-04-2018, 03:11 PM   #2
jackie_w
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Originally Posted by jgawne View Post
A recent ebook will not pass Smashwords flight check due to an id issue, and now older books that USED to be fine, are no longer passing (when a typo is fixed) due to the same issue.

Any ideas what's going on? The error message is:

Error while parsing file 'value of attribute "id" is invalid; must be an XML name without colons'. (ERROR)
I think ids need to start with an alpha character [a-z]. Might that be your problem?
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