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My self-made ePub file passes the validity checker, but the table of contents doesn't work when I open it in Stanza iPhone.

Mon, 03/16/2009 - 09:59 — Emily

Does your TOC look like this?

<item id="ncx" href="toc.ncx" media-type="text/xml"/>

If so, the "media-type" is incorrect. It should read:

<item id="ncx" href="toc.ncx" media-type="application/x-dtbncx+xml"/>

The fact that epubcheck doesn't validate this requirement in the spec is a bug in epubcheck itself:

http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/issues/detail?id=21