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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon w3c

Undefined entities are not reported for EPUB2 checks.

Open typopaul opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Non-standard entities, for example &linkref; are not reported when the checked file is EPUB2. In EPUB3 such entities are reported as errors.

Is there a certain reason for this behavior?

typopaul avatar Oct 09 '23 11:10 typopaul

If entities are defined in an external DTD, that would be valid in EPUB 2 (but not in EPUB 3). Could you share a sample file to reproduce the issue?

rdeltour avatar Oct 13 '23 12:10 rdeltour

@rdeltour

Find attached a zip file with a sample file containing a "wrong" entity in an EPUB2 file and a screenshot from the Thorium Reader. I understand that the entity should be associated with an external DTD/resource. I am surprised that the EPUB Checker does not report it as an error but Thorium Reader does.

issue1546_sample-entity-error-EPUB2.zip

typopaul avatar Nov 02 '23 10:11 typopaul