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Old 06-12-2011, 07:44 AM   #1
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Unhappy Unexpected TOC entry

I have some books in epub format which I'm converting to .mobi to read on a Kindle.
Sigil shows the TOC entries as expected, but after conversion to .mobi, the first entry on Contents menu is bookcontent1_0. The text corresponds to item 3 on the TOC list in Sigil, and is line 1 of the section1.xhtml file, in a document with structure:

cover.xhtml
title.xhtml
section1.xhtml
.
.
section18.xhtml

The normal first page entry for this book would point to section3.xhtml.

Since bookcontent1_0 seems superfluous, can someone help me suppress it, please? I'm converting via the GUI, not a command line, on a Windows 7 PC.
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Old 06-12-2011, 09:33 AM   #2
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Can you post your TOC XPath from the conversion settings as well as the relevant headings from the XHTML file (from the search & replace page, click the wizard staff to see the content)?
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Level 1, 2 & 3 TOC XPath expressions all appear blank in GUI. Does this imply some unseen default expressions being used? I normally only use these fields for .rtf -> .mobi, where //h:h3 would be a usual level1 setting for me.

I'm not sure what you would consider relevant headings, so here's the first chunk of code from the Regex builder between the *'s:

****************************************
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<title>Cover</title>
</head>

<body class="epub">
<div class="coverpage"><img alt="Cover" class="coverimage" src="../Images/front.jpg" /></div>
</body>
</html>

---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<title>Title</title>
</head>

<body class="epub">
<div class="titlepage">
<h2 class="title1" id="heading_id_2">The Book Title</h2><br />

<h3 id="heading_id_3">The Author</h3>
</div>
</body>
</html>

---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<title>Annotation</title>
</head>

**********************************

Book title and author changed to protect the innocent.

Thanks for the reply. I await enlightenment.
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Old 06-12-2011, 10:54 AM   #4
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Hm. If the XPath entry fields are blank, then my initial suspicion that those expressions picked up too many headings appears to be wrong. For some reason, your conversion seems to see a bigger TOC than the ePub displays. I'd suggest having a closer look using Sigil, but I can't help you further, I'm afraid.
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Thanks for trying to help.

Further testing shows:

Error in the Contents menu in Mobipocket Reader, as described in my original post, gives menu with entries

bookcontent1_0
Table of Contents
First Page
Cover page
where
bookcontent1_0 is line1 of section1.xhtml
Table of Contents is as shown in Sigil via Tools | TOC editor
First Page is line1 of title.xhtml
Cover page is is line1 of cover.xhtml

Deleting section1.xhtml and reconverting gives menu with entries

title
Table of Contents
First Page
Cover page
where
title is line1 of title.xhtml
Table of Contents is as shown in Sigil via Tools | TOC editor
First Page is line1 of title.xhtml
Cover page is is line1 of cover.xhtml

Clearly, there's some kind of conversion issue in Calible 0.8.5 which Mobipocket Reader sees. Happily for me (in a way), the Kindle 3 is not sophisticated enough to pick this up, so all appears well when using Go To|Table of Contents on the device.

Do you think this warrants a bug report?
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