EPUBs not working on Apple Ipads.

[Philip Burns]

No description provided.

[Craig Berry]

An example of what epubcheck from here thinks of one of these generated ePubs. May or may not be among the reasons iBooks refuses to load one. Current workaround is to use Calibre.

$ java -jar ../epubcheck-4.0.2/epubcheck.jar 161-A27177_20.epub
Validating using EPUB version 2.0.1 rules.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/content.opf(18,17): Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here; expected the element end-tag or element "item"'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/content.opf(20,17): Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here; expected the element end-tag or element "item"'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/content.opf(34,17): Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here; expected the element end-tag or element "itemref"'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/content.opf(36,13): Error while parsing file 'text not allowed here; expected the element end-tag or element "itemref"'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/toc.ncx(25,65): Error while parsing file 'identical playOrder values for navPoint/navTarget/pageTarget that do not refer to same target'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/toc.ncx(30,69): Error while parsing file 'identical playOrder values for navPoint/navTarget/pageTarget that do not refer to same target'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/toc.ncx(79,56): Error while parsing file 'identical playOrder values for navPoint/navTarget/pageTarget that do not refer to same target'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/toc.ncx(85,56): Error while parsing file 'identical playOrder values for navPoint/navTarget/pageTarget that do not refer to same target'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/title.html(10,26): Error while parsing file 'elements from namespace "" are not allowed'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/title.html(12,32): Error while parsing file 'elements from namespace "" are not allowed'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/title.html(12,161): Error while parsing file 'elements from namespace "http://nuheader.at.northwestern.edu/ns/1.0" are not allowed'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/title.html(14,32): Error while parsing file 'elements from namespace "" are not allowed'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/title.html(16,31): Error while parsing file 'elements from namespace "" are not allowed'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/title.html(17,32): Error while parsing file 'elements from namespace "" are not allowed'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/A27177_20-e100030.html(14,32): Error while parsing file 'element "style" not allowed here; expected element "address", "blockquote", "del", "div", "dl", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "ins", "noscript", "ns:svg", "ol", "p", "pre", "script", "table" or "ul" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")'.
ERROR(CSS-008): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/A27177_20-e100030.html(16,11): An error occurred while parsing the CSS: Token 'tagged' not allowed here, expecting :.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/A27177_20-e100030.html(7661,63): Error while parsing file 'element "div" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag, text or element "a", "abbr", "acronym", "applet", "b", "bdo", "big", "br", "cite", "code", "del", "dfn", "em", "i", "iframe", "img", "ins", "kbd", "map", "noscript", "ns:svg", "object", "q", "samp", "script", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "tt" or "var" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/A27177_20-e100030.html(7762,63): Error while parsing file 'element "div" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag, text or element "a", "abbr", "acronym", "applet", "b", "bdo", "big", "br", "cite", "code", "del", "dfn", "em", "i", "iframe", "img", "ins", "kbd", "map", "noscript", "ns:svg", "object", "q", "samp", "script", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "tt" or "var" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/A27177_20-e100030.html(18243,61): Error while parsing file 'element "div" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag, text or element "a", "abbr", "acronym", "applet", "b", "bdo", "big", "br", "cite", "code", "del", "dfn", "em", "i", "iframe", "img", "ins", "kbd", "map", "noscript", "ns:svg", "object", "q", "samp", "script", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "tt" or "var" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/A27177_20-e100030.html(32580,63): Error while parsing file 'element "div" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag, text or element "a", "abbr", "acronym", "applet", "b", "bdo", "big", "br", "cite", "code", "del", "dfn", "em", "i", "iframe", "img", "ins", "kbd", "map", "noscript", "ns:svg", "object", "q", "samp", "script", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "tt" or "var" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")'.
ERROR(RSC-005): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/endnotes.html(10,38): Error while parsing file 'element "table" incomplete; expected element "caption", "col", "colgroup", "tbody", "tfoot", "thead" or "tr"'.
ERROR(RSC-001): 161-A27177_20.epub/161-A27177_20.epub(-1,-1): File 'OEBPS/defects.html' could not be found.
ERROR(RSC-012): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/toc.ncx(83,52): Fragment identifier is not defined.
ERROR(RSC-012): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/toc.ncx(89,52): Fragment identifier is not defined.
ERROR(RSC-012): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/table-of-contents.html(15,54): Fragment identifier is not defined.
ERROR(RSC-012): 161-A27177_20.epub/OEBPS/table-of-contents.html(18,54): Fragment identifier is not defined.

Check finished with errors

epubcheck completed

[Craig Berry]

We are now using the TEI Consortium stylesheets to generate ePubs and no longer have this problem.