alan said:
I hadn't realized that XHTML was so important for e-book
publishing.
the corporate publishers have tried to sabotage e-books since the early days, so xhtml was meant to raise the difficulty-level, one of many choices made to discourage self-publishers from disrupting the space and disintermediating the gate-keepers... as for validation, it's required by the online e-bookstores (except when they choose to make exceptions for their own convenience), but most of the viewer-programs don't enforce validation strictly... of course, none of the viewer-programs do _anything_ consistently -- including simple rendering of content in the manner specified -- so you might run into the occasional exception on this issue, sadly. meanwhile, sensible people are formulating more sensible criteria, so when the dinosaurs go extinct, we'll leave that nonsense behind. -bowerbird _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
