Apple iBookstore rejects Flare ePub file

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I created an ePub target from one of our more popular manuals. The "book" looks great on the iPad/iPhone but it's a bit of a process to get it there (right now I'm using Dropbox to transfer the file).

We wanted to provide it as a free "book" for download, but Apple's iBookstore rejected the file. It listed countless errors, but the messages seem to be mostly related to attributes that are "not allowed". This is just one example:

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   <error>
            <resource>OPS/file.htm</resource>
            <line>20</line>
            <message>attribute "width" not allowed here; expected attribute "abbr", "align", "axis", "char", "charoff", "class", "colspan", "dir", "headers", "id", "rowspan", "scope", "title" or "xml:lang"</message>
            <occurrences>10</occurrences>
         </error>

Running the file through an ePub validator returned similar results.

I don't know a lot about this format in general but I wonder whether it should be considered a true ePub target if it returns so many errors. That said, it's obviously viewable, at least on Apple products, so rejecting the file doesn't make sense to me either.