Re: [docbook-apps] epub3 follow-up

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the explanation. I did go ahead and build a "cleanup" stylesheet that "fixes" these two problems (and also removes the svg references that I mentioned in previous email). As soon as epubcheck fixes the <p> in <th> problem, I'll back that out.

Yes, I am getting a @rules attribute from DocBook XSL 1.77.1. It looks like it's coming from informal tables that have a rules attribute in the DocBook. I think it's just passing them through unchanged.

Dick
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On Aug 22, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:

> Hi Dick,
> Sorry for the delay in responding as I was out of town for a bit.
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> The item about <p> in <th> is soon to be fixed in epubcheck, so don't worry about that one.
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> Regarding the rules attribute, that is not supported in HTML5, which is what epub3 uses.  See:
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> http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_table.asp
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> Are you getting a @rules attribute from DocBook XSL 1.77.1?
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> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Hamilton" <>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:47 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] epub3 follow-up
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> 
> This note is probably mostly for Bob, but I'm posting to the list because the answer may be of interest to all.
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> I've been getting two table-related syntax errors from epubcheck 3.0b5. The first complains about <p> inside <th> and the second complains about the presence of the rules attribute inside a <table> element.
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> Both appear to be valid xhtml, and doing a little web searching, I see that Bob reported the first to the epubcheck developers a while ago.
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> My question is:
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> Is it worth the trouble to do a script to "fix" these cases so that epubcheck will report a clean result, or are they well enough known that distributors (Apple ibooks and BN Pubit, for example) will accept those errors when they encounter them in their input testing?
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> Thanks for any insight you can provide.
> 
> Dick Hamilton
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