Re: [docbook-apps] invalid EPUB file when using a glossary

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Peter,
Can you post the DocBook input that generated that output?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 7/30/2014 4:04 PM, Peter Lavin wrote:
> HI,
>
> I'm attempting to validate an EPUB 3 file that contains a glossary and
> I'm seeing the following error for each glossary entry:
>
> ERROR: book.epub/OEBPS/db.gloss.xhtml(22,48): element "a" not allowed
> here; expected element "dd" or "dt"
>
> I'm using Epubcheck Version 3.0.1 and my style sheets are 1.78.1
> (docbook-xsl-ns).
>
> An example of the HTML that raises the error follows:
>
> <dl>
> <dt id="db.gloss.json"><span class="glossterm" epub:type="glossterm"/>
> (<abbr class="acronym">JSON</abbr>)</dt>
> <a id="idp1493040" class="indexterm"/>
> <dd class="glossdef" epub:type="glossdef">
>    <p/>
> </dd>
> ...
> </dl>
>
> Attempting to validate this HTML at the W3C site throws the following error:
>
> Line 22, Column 46: XHTML element a not allowed as child of XHTML
> element dl in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)
>          <a id="idp1493040" class="indexterm"/>
> Am I correct in assuming that this style sheet generates invalid HTML?
> If so, how can this be fixed?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
>
> Peter Lavin
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