epub validation

bilbaxo · 08-31-2018, 10:52 AM

Hello
I create an Epub with Caibre and I can't validate it at google books.
I have the following messages :
index_split_004.html:12, 2: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here.
index_split_005.html:14, 2: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here.
index_split_006.html:12, 83: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here.
index_split_007.html:13, 2: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here.
.............................and so on
index_split_051.html:12, 130: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here.
index_split_052.html:13, 2: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here.
The same for every part of my book.

I look at the head of my files :
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<link href="stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="page_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
Which is the same for all the files and also the same as many previous books which were accepted without problem and tried many variations...
I spent many hours about this problem but I don't find any solution...
Some help ?

theducks · 08-31-2018, 12:46 PM

Each of those messages has:
a file name
a row and column where the error was PERCEIVED

The actual error may have happened earlier, but only till it reached a point where something NEW was to happen that would now be impossible (typ unbalanced tags. you are trying to close more than were open

).

In this case
Look for naked text (tagless) , missing/wrong type quotes, colon vs semicolon.

If you use the calibre editors check tool (the bug icon), double click the error message: it should take you to the line with the error (as noted above)

Sarmat89 · 08-31-2018, 01:12 PM

Calibre often puts text inside blockquotes, which is disallowed in EPUB2.

bilbaxo · 09-03-2018, 03:13 AM

thank's for your help.
for 2 of my ebooks, the verification is ok (no problem at all)
for one, this message : index_split_003.html (ligne : 9) which is :
<body class="calibre">
???
and for the line/column information, I found no problem in the code...
I join a file with his message :

the message :
index_split_005.html:10, 282: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here; expected element "address", "blockquote", "del", "div", "dl", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "ins", "noscript", "ns:svg", "ol", "p", "pre", "script", "table" or "ul" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")'.
the file :
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>J'apprends à me servir de Sage paie I7 V9</title>

<link href="styles/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<link href="styles/page_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
</head>
<body class="calibre">
II. SAGE PAIE POUR QUOI FAIREA. CONFIGURATION OPTIMALE<blockquote class="calibre_7">LA CONFIGURATION CONSEILLÉE EST LA SUIVANTE :</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü* ordinateur de type pentium™ à plusieurs noyaux de 2 à 4 GHz avec Windows 10</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü* mémoire vive de 6 à 24 Go </blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü* écran plat large de 19" à 24" résolution 1680/1050 - couleurs 32 bits</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü* disque dur 1* To / Ssd 250 Go</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü* Lecteur-graveur Dvd/BlueRay</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü* Souris Laser 2 boutons + roulette de qualité</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü* Accès internet</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_19"><blockquote class="calibre6"><blockquote class="calibre6"><blockquote class="calibre_20">*</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_21"><img src="images/00525.jpg" class="calibre_25"/>***** Plus l'ordinateur sera puissant et mieux il sera équipé, plus agréable sera l'utilisation de sage paie</blockquote><div class="mbp_pagebreak" id="calibre_pb_10"></div>
</body></html>

theducks · 09-03-2018, 11:29 AM

That is very hard on the eyes

Please 'pretty' up the source text (at least for that file) by using the flower icon
The one in the edit window, does just the file. the one on the Main EDITOR window, does the document.

some place near the 280th character, the error became apparant.
most likely, a missing closing tag (or on the wrong side of some text)

DNSB · 09-03-2018, 12:13 PM

One item that pops out for me is that you are using <blockquote> and <blockquote>text which was legitimate in early HTML however XHTML only allows block-level elements within blockquotes, see XHTML 1.0 Block-Level Elements and Why this code showing error in W3C validator? for more information. I did a quick edit and pretty print on your post and it validates for me with only errors about missing items. Unless you are planning on entering an obfuscated code contest, pretty printing is a great idea. In your sample, your entire page below the <body> tag was a single line making it much harder to locate errors.

Spoiler:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title>J'apprends à me servir de Sage paie I7 V9</title>
  <link href="styles/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
  <link href="styles/page_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
</head>

<body class="calibre">
  <p id="filepos132725" class="calibre_43"><span class="calibre7"><span class="bold"><span class="calibre_44">II. SAGE PAIE POUR QUOI FAIRE</span></span></span></p>

  <p id="filepos132861" class="calibre_4"><span class="calibre2"><span class="bold"><span class="calibre_5"><span class="calibre_6">A. CONFIGURATION OPTIMALE</span></span></span></span></p>

  <blockquote>
    <p class="calibre_7"><span class="calibre1">LA CONFIGURATION CONSEILLÉE EST LA SUIVANTE :</span></p>
  </blockquote>

  <blockquote>
    <p class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>ordinateur de type pentium™ à plusieurs noyaux de 2 à 4 GHz avec Windows 10</p>
  </blockquote>

  <blockquote>
    <p class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>mémoire vive de 6 à 24 Go</p>
  </blockquote>

  <blockquote>
    <p class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>écran plat large de 19" à 24" résolution 1680/1050 - couleurs 32 bits</p>
  </blockquote>

  <blockquote>
    <p class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>disque dur 1* To / Ssd 250 Go</p>
  </blockquote>

  <blockquote>
    <p class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>Lecteur-graveur Dvd/BlueRay</p>
  </blockquote>

  <blockquote>
    <p class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>Souris Laser 2 boutons + roulette de qualité</p>
  </blockquote>

  <blockquote>
    <p class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>Accès internet</p>
  </blockquote>

  <blockquote class="calibre_19">
    <blockquote class="calibre6">
      <blockquote class="calibre6">
        <blockquote>
          <p class="calibre_20"><span class="calibre3"><span class="italic">*</span></span></p>
        </blockquote>
      </blockquote>
    </blockquote>
  </blockquote>

  <blockquote>
    <p class="calibre_21"><img src="images/00525.jpg" class="calibre_25"/><span class="calibre4"><span class="italic"><span class="bold"><span class="calibre_18">***** </span></span></span></span><span class="calibre1"><span class="calibre_26">Plus l'ordinateur sera puissant et mieux il sera équipé, plus agréable sera l'utilisation de sage paie</span></span></p>
  </blockquote>

  <div class="mbp_pagebreak" id="calibre_pb_10"></div>
</body>
</html>

bilbaxo · 09-04-2018, 10:07 AM

I agree ; the code is awfull. But it comes for a word document transformed in html and already cleaned and the <blockquote> are all created by calibre conversion.
And the calibre verification is ok.
And no, i don't find any misssing character and how coult it be the same error in every file of the book ?

BetterRed · 09-04-2018, 05:24 PM

@bilbaxo - if you have a document in DOCX I suggest you convert that to EPUB directly, see ==>> FAQ: What are the best source formats to convert?.

Whilst DOCX is only one place higher than HTML in that list, the quality of output from conversion is significant - IMO.

BR

DNSB · 09-04-2018, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bilbaxo

I agree ; the code is awfull. But it comes for a word document transformed in html and already cleaned and the <blockquote> are all created by calibre conversion.
And the calibre verification is ok.
And no, i don't find any misssing character and how coult it be the same error in every file of the book ?

I'm sorry but I can only say what I see in your code. XHTML is much stricter in it's requirements than earlier HTML implementations. While once you could use:

Code:

<blockquote><i>this is a text string</i></blockquote>

now you need to use:

Code:

<blockquote><block-level element><i>this is a text string</i></block-level element></blockquote>

or your code will not validate. I would recommend installing the epubcheck plugin for the calibre editor. Whether or not some people think it is a piece of crap, it is what almost all sites use to validate epubs and it will catch quite a few errors that the builtin check in calibre does not. As for calibre conversion, it is not going to catch and fix quite a few possible errors in your code -- GIGO lives.

As for the same error? If the sample you supplied is anything to go by, you have <blockquote> followed by naked text and/or non block-level elements. One line you supplied and I corrected was:

Code:

 <blockquote class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>Souris Laser 2 boutons + roulette de qualité</blockquote>

Notice the text ü immediately after the <blockquote>? Notice the tags? Notice the lack of any block-level element inside the blockquote tags? If this is typical of all your files, they will not validate on any site that uses epubcheck or similar to validate your ebook.

And again, pretty-printing makes it much easier to read your code. This is not the obfuscated C contest.

08-31-2018, 10:52 AM	#1
bilbaxo Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2016 Device: none	epub validation Hello I create an Epub with Caibre and I can't validate it at google books. I have the following messages : index_split_004.html:12, 2: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here. index_split_005.html:14, 2: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here. index_split_006.html:12, 83: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here. index_split_007.html:13, 2: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here. .............................and so on index_split_051.html:12, 130: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here. index_split_052.html:13, 2: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here. The same for every part of my book. I look at the head of my files : <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <link href="stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="page_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> Which is the same for all the files and also the same as many previous books which were accepted without problem and tried many variations... I spent many hours about this problem but I don't find any solution... Some help ?

09-03-2018, 03:13 AM	#4
bilbaxo Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2016 Device: none	thank's for your help. for 2 of my ebooks, the verification is ok (no problem at all) for one, this message : index_split_003.html (ligne : 9) which is : <body class="calibre"> ??? and for the line/column information, I found no problem in the code... I join a file with his message : the message : index_split_005.html:10, 282: Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here; expected element "address", "blockquote", "del", "div", "dl", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "ins", "noscript", "ns:svg", "ol", "p", "pre", "script", "table" or "ul" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")'. the file : <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>J'apprends à me servir de Sage paie I7 V9</title> <link href="styles/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <link href="styles/page_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="calibre"> <p id="filepos132725" class="calibre_43"><span class="calibre7"><span class="bold"><span class="calibre_44">II. SAGE PAIE POUR QUOI FAIRE</span></span></span></p><p id="filepos132861" class="calibre_4"><span class="calibre2"><span class="bold"><span class="calibre_5"><span class="calibre_6">A. CONFIGURATION OPTIMALE</span></span></span></span></p><blockquote class="calibre_7"><span class="calibre1">LA CONFIGURATION CONSEILLÉE EST LA SUIVANTE :</span></blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>ordinateur de type pentium™ à plusieurs noyaux de 2 à 4 GHz avec Windows 10</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>mémoire vive de 6 à 24 Go </blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>écran plat large de 19" à 24" résolution 1680/1050 - couleurs 32 bits</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>disque dur 1* To / Ssd 250 Go</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>Lecteur-graveur Dvd/BlueRay</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>Souris Laser 2 boutons + roulette de qualité</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_7">ü<span class="calibre4">* </span>Accès internet</blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_19"><blockquote class="calibre6"><blockquote class="calibre6"><blockquote class="calibre_20"><span class="calibre3"><span class="italic"></span></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="calibre_21"><img src="images/00525.jpg" class="calibre_25"/><span class="calibre4"><span class="italic"><span class="bold"><span class="calibre_18">**** </span></span></span></span><span class="calibre1"><span class="calibre_26">Plus l'ordinateur sera puissant et mieux il sera équipé, plus agréable sera l'utilisation de sage paie</span></span></blockquote><div class="mbp_pagebreak" id="calibre_pb_10"></div> </body></html>

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08-31-2018, 12:46 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,803 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Each of those messages has: a file name a row and column where the error was PERCEIVED The actual error may have happened earlier, but only till it reached a point where something NEW was to happen that would now be impossible (typ unbalanced tags. you are trying to close more than were open ). In this case Look for naked text (tagless) , missing/wrong type quotes, colon vs semicolon. If you use the calibre editors check tool (the bug icon), double click the error message: it should take you to the line with the error (as noted above)

08-31-2018, 01:12 PM	#3
Sarmat89 Evangelist Posts: 482 Karma: 2267928 Join Date: Nov 2015 Device: none	Calibre often puts text inside blockquotes, which is disallowed in EPUB2.

09-03-2018, 11:29 AM	#5
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,803 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	That is very hard on the eyes Please 'pretty' up the source text (at least for that file) by using the flower icon The one in the edit window, does just the file. the one on the Main EDITOR window, does the document. some place near the 280th character, the error became apparant. most likely, a missing closing tag (or on the wrong side of some text)

09-04-2018, 10:07 AM	#7
bilbaxo Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2016 Device: none	I agree ; the code is awfull. But it comes for a word document transformed in html and already cleaned and the <blockquote> are all created by calibre conversion. And the calibre verification is ok. And no, i don't find any misssing character and how coult it be the same error in every file of the book ?

09-04-2018, 05:24 PM	#8
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,570 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@bilbaxo - if you have a document in DOCX I suggest you convert that to EPUB directly, see ==>> FAQ: What are the best source formats to convert?. Whilst DOCX is only one place higher than HTML in that list, the quality of output from conversion is significant - IMO. BR

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