When preparing an OEB-compliant document, apply XHTML rules for producing well-formed markup (see the OEB specification, http://www.openebook.org/). Follow these rules to ensure smooth conversion using all electronic book-publishing tools.
Note, however, that you can sometimes ignore these rules, depending on the strength of your conversion tools. This is because the conversion process involves two steps:
Some tools have a stronger system for the cleanup step than others, and so not all of the following rules may apply. Consult your tools vendor documentation for exact details. The rules are:
Singleton tags must be "closed" with a space and a forward slash ( /), for example:
<br />
<img src="photo.jpg" />
<img src="image.jpg" />
<font size="1">
These requirements result in well-formed XML or HTML that is easily converted to .lit, the Microsoft Reader file format. For more information on writing well-formed XML, please see the XHTML specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/.
When non-OEB-compliant documents of MIME type text/html
are used as source documents for
conversion to .lit files, you can use upper case and lower case forms of predefined tags interchangeably.
For more information, see:
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