Re: [O] Making ePub books: further report

[Jambunathan K]

Alan L Tyree <address@hidden> writes:

> On 11/12/11 20:41:18, Alan L Tyree wrote:
>> On 11/12/11 18:42:10, Nick Dokos wrote:
>> > Alan L Tyree <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > 
>> > > >   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/41826/focus=41849
>> > > 
>> > > Yes, Calibre does a nice job of converting XHTML to ePub; it can
>> be
>> > > read in all the readers that I use, but it won't pass the 
>> > validation
>> > > tests. OK unless you want to publish on sites that require
>> > validation.
>> <SNIP>
>> 
>> I was being unfair to Calibre. If I clean up the XHTML file produced
>> by 
>> org (in the way indicated by my original post plus a couple of things 
>> that I didn't mention), then Calibre produces an ePub book that 
>> passes
>> 
>> validation.
>> 
>> So -- back to my original question: is there some variable somewhere 
>> that puts in both name="xxx" and id="xxx" or do I need to write a 
>> post
>> 
>> export clean up function?
>
> Bad form to answer my own question: these seem to be hard coded in org-
> html.el along with the other items that give ePub validation a nervous 
> breakdown. I'll post a full list of the offending items later.


If you use org-xhtml.el (in contrib/lisp/org-xhtml.el) then you can
re-define some aspects of html export selectively.

For example, you can redefine this to

,---- original
| (defun org-xhtml-format-anchor (text name &optional class)
|   (let* ((id name)
|        (extra (concat
|                (when name (format " name=\"%s\""  name))
|                (when id (format " id=\"%s\""  id))
|                (when class (format " class=\"%s\""  class)))))
|     (org-xhtml-format-tags '("<a%s>" . "</a>") text extra)))
`----

this

,---- modified
| (defun org-xhtml-format-anchor (text name &optional class)
|   (let* ((id name)
|        (extra (concat
|                (when id (format " id=\"%s\""  id))
|                (when class (format " class=\"%s\""  class)))))
|     (org-xhtml-format-tags '("<a%s>" . "</a>") text extra)))
`----

to strip name from anchor.

I am not sure whether org-xhtml.el will minimize your efforts. Just a
suggestion.

ps: Add contrib/lisp to load-path and do org-export-as-xhtml.

> Cheers,
> Alan
>
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alan L Tyree                    http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan
>> Tel:  04 2748 6206           sip:address@hidden
>> 
>> 
>> 

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