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Re: XHTML validation (was: texi to epub)


From: Jacob Bachmeyer
Subject: Re: XHTML validation (was: texi to epub)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:07:37 -0600
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Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 07:06:37PM +0100, Kurt Hornik wrote:
Friends,

  calibre does not guarantee that an EPUB produced by it is valid. The
  only guarantee it makes is that if you feed it valid XHTML 1.1 + CSS
  2.1 it will output a valid EPUB.

and of course makeinfo gives HTML 4.01 Transitional: I also tried the
effect of going through HTML tidy to turn that into XHTML, but that did
not make epubcheck happy.

My wild guess is that outputting valid XHTML directly with texi2any is
probably the simplest way to go.  This is actually probably a
prerequisite for generating epub anyway.  I recall somebody else wanting
XHTML too.

I could have a try, but before I would like to have an XHTML
command-line offline validator, is there something like that existing?

If I remember correctly, the "offline" version of the W3C validator (a DTD bundle is available for download, to be used with OpenSP nsgmls) can also do XHTML 1.1, although I am unsure about exactly how thorough the validation will be for the XML constraints. There is some information at <URL:http://validator.w3.org/docs/devel.html> on the topic. I do know that Emacs' built-in support for HTML validation relied on nsgmls and the W3C DTD collection when I last checked.


-- Jacob




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