getting the epub to validate

[troymc]

Originally Posted by Guido Henkel

It does not have contents. It has content and that is exactly why I do not need a TOC. It is a little strange to create a TOC that points into the middle of text sections. That's why usually a TOC points to chapter starts, which I do not have.

Originally Posted by Guido Henkel

It's an endless list listing every one of my countless TOC entries.
...
Just to point out, if it helps, that my TOC entries are picked directly in the text and the name of the TOC entry is essentially an entire paragraph of text. I have to do this because I have no chapter markers or anything else I could use for a chapter title and I don't want to have an endless list of TOC entries, all of them displayed as "Unnamed."

I'm not quite sure what you are doing here - are you converting to epub from some other format?

Your TOC only needs 1 entry - so point it at the start of your text.

In your toc.ncx, where you had the invalid "<navMap />" tag, you would now have something like this:

    <navMap>
        <navPoint id="navPoint-1" playOrder="1">
            <navLabel>
                <text>Start</text>
            </navLabel>
            <content src="Text/Section0001.xhtml"/>
        </navPoint>
    </navMap>

Now, when anyone clicks on their TOC button in their ebook viewer, they'll see one entry: "Start" which will jump them to the beginning of the text.


Troy

[Guido Henkel]

Okay I have been able to fix this issue, but now I have another question.

Is there something particular I need to keep in mind when embedding images in an ePub file?

If I have an image embedded in my HTML file <img src="testimage.jpg" /> I will get the following error message when I run the file through epubcheck.

ERROR: jdghvol5.epub/DrPrometheus WIN_split_000.html(8): required attributes missing

Am I missing something?

[kovidgoyal]

the alt attribute

[Guido Henkel]

Yes, that was it. Thank you very much, Kovid.