html problem

Nate the great · 03-11-2009, 10:49 PM

I'm posting a set of files that have me stumped.

The ZIP file contains 6 HTML files from the CIA World Fact Book. One file does not display the same as the other 5. I cannot figure out why. There are a minimum number of tags in the files.

Eternal gratitude and karma to the first person who figures it out. Thanks.

nrapallo · 03-11-2009, 11:00 PM

OK, the first five .html's have a problem with the heading tags surrounding the Appendix title. There's no closing </h2> as it's currently a typo <h2> in all the html's except the last one.

The last one (6th) .html file has no <link> in the <head> section as well as a spurious ">" near the bottom of the file.

Hope this helps!

Nate the great · 03-11-2009, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nrapallo

OK, the first five .html's have a problem with the heading tags surrounding the Appendix title. There's no closing </h2> as it's currently a typo <h2> in all the html's except the last one.

The last one (6th) .html file has no <link> in the <head> section as well as a spurious ">" near the bottom of the file.

Hope this helps!

closing the tag...

Thank you.

nrapallo · 03-11-2009, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nate the great

closing the tag...

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Also, the second file, appendix-b.html, has a mismatched number of "<" and ">". You should change the 56 occurences of "<br<I>" to "<br><I>".

Looks like you're progressing along quite well. I'm still hand editing/fixing appendix-b.html for my REB1200 version and will have to figure out a better method when I get to the rankorder/fields pages!

Cheers,

Sweetpea · 03-12-2009, 08:50 AM

One thing I often do if I run into a problem like that, is to open the file in a XML editor.

Or lately, just create an ebook out of it, then check it and it will give you all the closing errors (and other HTML mistakes

)

(I've had a lot of books that had most of the text center aligned/in italic/bold/underline, just because I hadn't closed the tag correctly!)

FizzyWater · 03-12-2009, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

One thing I often do if I run into a problem like that, is to open the file in a XML editor.

Any one in particular you would recommend?

Nate the great · 03-12-2009, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

One thing I often do if I run into a problem like that, is to open the file in a XML editor.

Or lately, just create an ebook out of it, then check it and it will give you all the closing errors (and other HTML mistakes

)

(I've had a lot of books that had most of the text center aligned/in italic/bold/underline, just because I hadn't closed the tag correctly!)

Firefox does this job pretty good.

Sweetpea · 03-13-2009, 04:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

Any one in particular you would recommend?

I'm a web developer, so I use tools I wouldn't buy for personal use

But, as Nate also said, just rename the file to .XML and open it in your browser. It will point out any mistakes you made with the elements.

mtravellerh · 03-13-2009, 05:23 AM

You know what's really a bummer and no XML will help you prevent? If you have an anchor within a header, say

Code:

<h2><a name""></a>whatever</h2>

this will give a bad mistake in mobi files.

What happens? Well the link jumps right to the anchor, ignoring the header tag and displaying the "whatever" as simple text without formatting. Took me a while to figure that one out.

nrapallo · 03-13-2009, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mtravellerh

You know what's really a bummer and no XML will help you prevent? If you have an anchor within a header, say

Code:

<h2><a name""></a>whatever</h2>

this will give a bad mistake in mobi files.

What happens? Well the link jumps right to the anchor, ignoring the header tag and displaying the "whatever" as simple text without formatting. Took me a while to figure that one out.

And Mobi2IMP (really eBook Publisher) hates the Feedbooks.com encoding of some of their news fetched .mobi (like Wired: Beyond the beyond) where they insert the <a name> within the <a href>:

Code:

<a href="4.html"><a name="0000000699"></a><h3>Four Horsemen of Climate Apocalypse Rev Up their Fossil-Fueled Engines</h3></a>

I'd prefer <a name> before the <a href> for the same reason it doesn't work with the header tags if after. It's cleaner and more appropriate!

Sweetpea · 03-16-2009, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nrapallo

And Mobi2IMP (really eBook Publisher) hates the Feedbooks.com encoding of some of their news fetched .mobi (like Wired: Beyond the beyond) where they insert the <a name> within the <a href>:

Code:

<a href="4.html"><a name="0000000699"></a><h3>Four Horsemen of Climate Apocalypse Rev Up their Fossil-Fueled Engines</h3></a>

I'd prefer <a name> before the <a href> for the same reason it doesn't work with the header tags if after. It's cleaner and more appropriate!

I've done away with the <a name=""></a> completely.

this: <h2><a name""></a>whatever</h2>
will be this: <h2 id="name">whatever</h2>

And it gives the same functionality and is even epub valid!

Hadrien · 03-17-2009, 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nrapallo

And Mobi2IMP (really eBook Publisher) hates the Feedbooks.com encoding of some of their news fetched .mobi (like Wired: Beyond the beyond) where they insert the <a name> within the <a href>

We don't do this, Wired does. Cleaning up RSS feeds is incredibly annoying believe me: messy XHTML, wrong character encoding, entities encoded twice etc...

nrapallo · 03-17-2009, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hadrien

We don't do this, Wired does. Cleaning up RSS feeds is incredibly annoying believe me: messy XHTML, wrong character encoding, entities encoded twice etc...

It's OK, I try and cope with badly coded (at the source) RSS feeds by RegEx'ing a workable solution as well as quirks and limitations of the eBook Publisher software I rely on within Mobi2IMP.

I'm currently updating Mobi2IMP to properly convert your Feedbooks.com feeds (stored in mobipocket format) and I think I can say I'm winning the battle.

Most of the times, the resulting conversion does work as it's supposed to!

BTW, Hadrien, there's one quirk that you may try and fix. I did notice (though I can't off hand remember where I saw this) in some exploded .mobi RSS feeds that the HTML tag <br \> was used. I needed to substitute <br /> instead.

Here's my solution, utilized to properly convert your RSS feeds, written as Perl RegEx:

Code:

#fix up feedbooks.com news feeds quirks 
$html =~ s/<br(\s)*\\>/<br \/>/gi;
$html =~ s/<a href([^>]*)><a name([^>]*)><\/a>/<a name$2><\/a><a href$1>/gi;

03-11-2009, 11:00 PM	#2
nrapallo GuteBook/Mobi2IMP Creator Posts: 2,958 Karma: 2530691 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada Device: REB1200 EBW1150 Device: T1 NSTG iLiad_v2 NC Device: Asus_TF Next1 WPDN	OK, the first five .html's have a problem with the heading tags surrounding the Appendix title. There's no closing </h2> as it's currently a typo <h2> in all the html's except the last one. The last one (6th) .html file has no <link> in the <head> section as well as a spurious ">" near the bottom of the file. Hope this helps! Last edited by nrapallo; 03-12-2009 at 10:31 PM. Reason: typo

03-13-2009, 05:23 AM	#9
mtravellerh book creator Posts: 9,657 Karma: 3856660 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Luxembourg Device: Kindle Scribe	You know what's really a bummer and no XML will help you prevent? If you have an anchor within a header, say Code: <h2><a name""></a>whatever</h2> this will give a bad mistake in mobi files. What happens? Well the link jumps right to the anchor, ignoring the header tag and displaying the "whatever" as simple text without formatting. Took me a while to figure that one out.

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Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	One thing I often do if I run into a problem like that, is to open the file in a XML editor. Or lately, just create an ebook out of it, then check it and it will give you all the closing errors (and other HTML mistakes ) (I've had a lot of books that had most of the text center aligned/in italic/bold/underline, just because I hadn't closed the tag correctly!)

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