Re: EPUB 3.3 spec conformity issues

[Daniel Cerqueira]

Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 09:23:57AM +0100, Daniel Cerqueira wrote:
>> The EPUB file is produced without any errors, and when I check to see if
>> the file is valid (using the `epubcheck` program) I get this 2 errors:
>
> My current view on EPUB conformance is that seems to be important to
> have full conformance in some cases (as Daniel reported) and even if I
> think that having such a level of conformance is pointless or even
> wrong, I also think that it is important to provide a possibility of
> full epubcheck conformity, even if it is not the default.  For the
> release, however, I think that it is too late.
>
> Here is my proposal:
>
> 1) for the release, we do not make any change to the code, but we
> document that the EPUB we produce is no conformant.  We ship Daniel
> patches in contrib/ and we document that they exist too.
>
> 2) after the release we fix conformance issues as we can/want, for
> instance use CSS for border, add meta data for a publication date. I am
> pretty sure there were other issues.  If there are still conformance
> issues and we do not want to change the default HTML output, we add a
> customization variable for epubcheck strict conformity and add the
> corresponding code.
>
> Does it look ok?

This seems like a progress to me.

Regarding having other issues, the dcterms:modified and the border of
the index table element, were the only issues that I encountered when
producing an EPUB file from my book's Texi file.

Book writers should be able to use Texinfo, without this causing any
friction.

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