Re: [docbook-apps] epub3 and named entities

2014-10-25 Thread Richard Hamilton
Hi Jirka, I got some clarification from the vendor, and you are correct that not all named character entities will be considered incorrect. In particular, it looks like the following five entities remain ok: lt;, gt;, amp;, quote; and apos; Thanks for the reply; it pushed me into checking

Re: [docbook-apps] epub3 and named entities

2014-10-24 Thread Richard Hamilton
I got the information from a conversion house, but I'm following up with them, so I'll refrain from naming them until they get a chance to respond. Dick --- XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net hamil...@xmlpress.net On Oct 22, 2014, at 13:41, Jirka Kosek

[docbook-apps] epub3 and named entities

2014-10-22 Thread Richard Hamilton
It looks as though the next version of epubcheck may reject epub3 files that use named character entities (amp;, etc.). Right now, the stylesheets will generate at least some of these, even if you use the numeric equivalent (e.g., if you use #38; for ampersand in your source, the output will

Re: [docbook-apps] epub3 and named entities

2014-10-22 Thread Jirka Kosek
On 22.10.2014 18:48, Richard Hamilton wrote: It looks as though the next version of epubcheck may reject epub3 files that use named character entities (amp;, etc.). Any source for this information? It's hard to believe that amp; will be refused as it can't be written directly (same with lt;