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Epubcheck reports an error for a paragraph like:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type" />
<title>Title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="foo.css" />
</head>
<body>
<p class="flush">"Time flies <span style="red">when</span> you're having a good time"</p>
</body>
</html>
The error comes back as:
Position 1
An error occurred while parsing the CSS: Premature end of grammar (expecting: :).
There are no other errors in the EPUB.
I don't know how to fix this error. It's the first time I've encountered it.
Worthy of note: this same epub file runs through Amazon Kindlegen with no errors.
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<p class="flush">"Time flies <span style="red">
"red" is not a valid CSS style. The style should be <span style="color:red;">
This also works: <span style="color:red; font-weight:bold;">
But in an epub, which uses XHTML, I always used classes.
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I posted an issue at the epubcheck site.
Someone there knew right away what the problem was.
This is acceptable:
<p>Text <span class="red">red</span> regular.</p>
This is acceptable:
<p>Text <span style="color:red">red</span> regular.</p>
This is not acceptable, and is what I had:
<p>Text <span style="red">red</span> regular.</p>
It was hard for me to figure out because the character position reported by epubcheck was at the beginning of the paragraph, far away from the actual error.
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