The output is as follows (slightly edited for clarity - shortened some names, hope it's still clear)
>java -jar C:\EPubcheck\epubcheck-3.0b5\epubcheck-3.0b5.jar Output/alm_acq.epub
Epubcheck Version 3.0b5
Validating against EPUB version 3.0
WARNING: Output/alm_acq.epub/OEBPS/package.opf(16,39): date value '28 April 2009' does not follow recommended syntax as per http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime:[For input string: "28 April 2009"] is not an integer
ERROR: Output/alm_acq.epub/OEBPS/package.opf(18,16): element "dc:date" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag or element "dc:contributor", "dc:coverage", "dc:creator", "dc:description", "dc:format", "dc:identifier", "dc:language", "dc:publisher", "dc:relation",
"dc:rights", "dc:source", "dc:subject", "dc:title", "dc:type", "link" or "meta"
WARNING: Output/alm_acq.epub/OEBPS/package.opf(18,42): date value '19 November 2003' does not follow recommended syntax as per http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime:[For input string: "19 November 2003"] is not an integer
Check finished with warnings or errors
It looks like the dc:date (or possibly <meta property="dcterms:date">) warnings are due to revision history entries with revision/date elements in the format '28 April 2009' and '19 November 2003' .
Looking at 'www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime' it looks like dates need to be in YYYY-MM-DD format. I've found (in epub3/epub3-element-mode.xsl) <!-- EPUB3 meta date should be of the form: YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD --> and <!-- FIXME: this needs further work,
so just return the date string for now -->, so it looks like this format is missing a conversion of dates into the required format.
I am getting two dc:date elements in package.opf. The ERROR above can be fixed by removing one of them.
The relevant part of package.opf is this (within the 'metadata' element):
<meta property="dcterms:date">28 April 2009</meta>
<dc:date>28 April 2009</dc:date>
<meta property="dcterms:date">19 November 2003</meta>
<dc:date>19 November 2003</dc:date>
Hope that helps,
Regards,
Richard.
Richard Kerry
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From: Carlos Araya [carlos.araya@gmail.com]
Sent: 30 August 2012 21:41
To: Kerry, Richard
Cc: DocBook Apps Mailing List [docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org]
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] RE: Epub3 - zip, or not ?
Richard:
There are some errors reported by epubcheck that are known to be fixed soon.
Could you post what are the errors you're getting from validation?
Carlos
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Kerry, Richard <richard.kerry@atos.net> wrote:
>
> OK, so that wasn't quite what I'd done.
> I didn't really want to add zip's folder to my path as I'm not using it for anything else, so I was actually running it by doing
>
> set zip=<path-to>\Info-Zip\zip232xn\zip.exe
>
> then not doing
> zip -r -X mybook.epub mimetype META-INF OEBPS
>
> but actually doing
> %zip% -r -X mybook.epub mimetype META-INF OEBPS
>
> And that gives the errors I showed before.
> If I add it to my path it is working.
>
> Though now I'm at step 4 - Validating with epubcheck 3
> and that is giving failures.
>
>
> Eventually,
> Richard.
>
>
>
>
> Richard Kerry
> BNCS Engineer
> T: +44 (0)20 82259063
> M: +44 (0)7812 325518
> Room EBX 301, BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, London, W12 7RJ
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> uk.atos.net
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> ________________________________________
> From: Kerry, Richard
> Sent: 30 August 2012 11:22
> To: DocBook Apps Mailing List [docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org]
> Subject: Epub3 - zip, or not ?
>
> I decided to try building an epub from my DocBook document, using epub3 .....
> Following the instructions in the README.
>
> Step 1. XSL (epub3/chunk.xsl) to generate Xhtml and other files.
> That seems to work fine.
>
> Step 2. Copy in any image files.
> I wrote some XSL to scan package.opf and generate a batch file to do the copy.
> I don't think XSL (or Saxon) has a built-in ability to copy files, so I build a batch file then run it.
>
> Step 3. Zip it.
> Ok, so I do the command as in the README -
> zip -r -X mybook.epub mimetype META-INF OEBPS
>
> And I get -
> 'zip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
>
> So - firstly, if referring to a program that isn't part of the operating system, please explain exactly what is meant.
>
>
> Anyway, I thought I recognized the syntax as Info-Zip's zip (I normally use 7-zip) so I set about getting a copy.
> Ok, the download is FTP, which I haven't used for ages. So install Filezilla and try and download an info-zip exe.
> Eventually find an exe, from zip323xn. Add its folder to my Path.
>
> Then run it ....
> zip -r -X mybook.epub mimetype META-INF OEBPS
>
> And now I get -
> zip warning: multiple disk information ignored
> <path-to>/Info-Zip/zip232xn/zip.exe: found a preamble of 20832 bytes
> zip warning: name not matched: mybook.epub
> zip I/O error: Permission denied
> zip error: Could not create output file (<path-to>//Info-Zip/zip232xn/zip.exe)
>
>
> Ok, so can someone tell me how to actually get this to work ?
>
>
> And ......
> Can 7-zip be used for this, if Info-zip's zip is going to give problems ?
> I think I've seen somewhere that "mimetype" should be in the archive but not compressed. Is this so ?
> If so how do we get it not to compress certain files ?
>
>
> Frustratedly,
> Richard.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Richard Kerry
> BNCS Engineer
> T: +44 (0)20 82259063
> M: +44 (0)7812 325518
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> richard.kerry@atos.net
> uk.atos.net
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