I'm using the Epub2 stylesheets. It turns out that the issue was in
the titlepage customization that I was using. The titlepage.xsl
generated from the template/titlepage.xsl didn't inlcude the xhtml
namespace.
Once I manually added the namespace to the titlepage.xsl it worked fine.
Thanks!
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Bob Stayton <> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> There currently are two DocBook to Epub stylesheets, the Epub 2 stylesheets
> in 1.76.1 distribution, and the Epub3 stylesheets currently in beta testing.
> Which are you using?
>
> Epub HTML elements are XHTML, which means all elements should be in the
> xhtml namespace. I think that somehow you are getting HTML elements that
> are not in the xhtml namespace. Are you using a customization by any
> chance?
>
> If not, can you identify which elements are in the empty namespace so we can
> trace them back to the stylesheet?
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Johnson" <>
> To: "Docbook Apps" <>
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 1:44 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] [EPub] namespace problems
>
>
>> I keep getting "elements from namespace "" are not allowed" in my Epub
>> documents that are generated from DocBook. What am I missing?
>>
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