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Old 02-11-2009, 09:25 AM   #52
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Originally Posted by Valloric View Post
You cannot guarantee that your application's output will be valid epub. Not in any realistic (and useful) editor.

Let me elaborate...

Any ebook editor needs to able to import (X)HTML. That's a given. If it's a good editor, then it will handle a lot more than just HTML, but let's stick to just that for now.
I never said that my hypothetic editor will be able to import (X)HTML !

If it is only for modifying the fonts, the justification and other text formatting, the editor must only accept to import pure text file and only that.
Then give tools for text formatting (plus eventually "tables" and "pictures" support).

It is a choice : a "poor" editor with certified XHTML/ePub output or a good editor with no certification (or warnings on bad inputs).
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