03-07-2019, 09:15 AM
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Html text not passing EpubCheck validation
I though the previous discussions on my ebook had solved my epub book errors, but on updating the epub version of my book via Smashwords Switch, the epubcheck tool (at http://validator.idpf.org/application/validate) failed my epub version giving me multiple errors (see attached screenshot). The four errors for each split html file are always the same, namely text, link, vlink and dir. I have included the code for split_001.html segment to show the code as written:
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>Unknown</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice 4.1.6 (Win32)"/>
<meta name="AUTHOR" content="op_client2"/>
<meta name="CREATED" content="20190222;15380000"/>
<meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="S Ve"/>
<meta name="CHANGED" content="20190222;15380000"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<link href="../Styles/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<link href="../Styles/page_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
</head>
<body lang="en-GB" text="#000000" link="#0563c1" vlink="#954f72" dir="LTR" class="calibre">
<h1 lang="en-US" class="western1" id="calibre_pb_0"></h1>
<p lang="en-US" class="western2">
<i class="calibre7">To Patricia,</i></p>
<p lang="en-US" class="western2">
<i class="calibre7">without her, the sky would be less blue and the Sun less bright.</i></p>
</body>
</html>
Any help as to how to get an epub book uploaded without errors PLEASE!  Thanks in advance (again), Andy |
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03-07-2019, 09:21 AM
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Sigil Developer
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The vlink, text, and link attributes no longer part of html spec nor the xhtml spec. This should be done via css.
Sigil has nothing to do with this, it did not create these body attributes. These attributes should be removed and replaced with the appropriate CSS classes. |
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03-07-2019, 09:23 AM
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Next time please post questions unrelated to Sigil in the Mobileread epub torum.
Thanks |
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03-07-2019, 09:23 AM
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Sigil didn't create those attributes. Nor does Sigil automatically fix all errors for you. So "Sigil html text not passing" is a little misleading. I'm removing it.
The color attributes in the body tag aren't valid xhtml. Remove them and change them to styles Whoops! Kevin already dealt with this. 
Last edited by DiapDealer; 03-07-2019 at 09:45 AM. |
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03-07-2019, 03:30 PM
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KevinH & DiapDealer,
Comments noted on Sigil and comments appreciated. Thanks, Andy |
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