Re: texi to epub

[Per Bothner]

On 12/16/21 10:08, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 06:33:32PM +0100, Kurt Hornik wrote:
> > There are two major sources of warnings in my case (using texinfo 6.8):
> >
> > * The data-manual attribute in the hyperlinks
>
> I remember not being in favor of an attribute that is not defined in
> HTML, even if it is acceptable in HTML5.  But if it has been added, I am
> pretty sure that it is usefull for somebody (maybe Per javascript?).

I know nothing about it - appears to have been added by Gavin:

2020-11-25  Gavin Smith  <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>

        data-manual attribute

        * tp/Texinfo/Convert/HTML.pm (_convert_xref_commands):
        Set data-manual attribute instead of class="texi-manual"
        on links to other Texinfo manuals.

> I propose to add a customization variable like 'NO_CUSTOM_ATTRIBUTE' to
> set to 1 to avoid data-manual and use it too for future custom
> attributes.

Why bother? What problem does it solve?  It avoids some warnings from
an overly-picky validator. I don't see that as a strong reason to change 
anything.

> > * Tables which do their header and footer inside thead and tfoot, but
> >    not the content inside tbody (which seems valid in XHTML 1.0 but not
> >    in 1.1).
>
> I think that it would make sens to always use tbody.

Again, it's just a warning - but if it's easy to fix, we might as well.
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