Bogus "fragment identifier is not defined" error?

[Keith Fahlgren]

Hi,

A minimal .epub file with mock footnotes
(http://kfahlgren.com/frag_id_broke.epub) raises the following error
with epubcheck:

OEBPS/index.html(4): 'ftn.id962795': fragment identifier is not
defined in 'OEBPS/index.html'

Can someone explain why that error would be thrown when there is an
item with id="ftn.id962795" in OEBPS/index.html?

OEBPS/index.html:
36 <p>Just a normal paragraph with a footnote^{[<a
id="id962784" href="#ftn.id962784" class="footnote">1</a>]}.</p>
...
75 <div class="footnote">
76 <p>^{[<a id="ftn.id962784" href="#id962784"
class="para">1</a>]}This is the
77 footnote.</p>
78 </div>

Thanks,
Keith

[garth...@gmail.com]

The error in question from epubcheck is:

target.epub/OEBPS/index.html(4): 'ftn.id962795': fragment identifier

is not defined in 'OEBPS/index.html'

If you search for "ftn.id962795" in the source, you find only:

<sup>[<a id="id962795" href="#ftn.id962795" class="footnote">2</a>]</
sup>

(if some line endings are added, you will find the this is the line
that is being complained about)

The two defined footnote targets are:

^{[<a id="ftn.id962830" href="#id962830" class="para">a</a>]}

^{[<a id="ftn.id962784" href="#id962784" class="para">1</a>]}

So, the error is correct, there is no element in the source with
'id="ftn.id962795"'.

Best,
Garth

[Keith Fahlgren]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:46 AM, <garth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The error in question from epubcheck is:
>
> target.epub/OEBPS/index.html(4): 'ftn.id962795': fragment identifier
>
> is not defined in 'OEBPS/index.html'
>
> If you search for "ftn.id962795" in the source, you find only:
>
> <sup>[<a id="id962795" href="#ftn.id962795" class="footnote">2</a>]</
> sup>

Bah, sorry. Apparently not enough coffee...

Keith