Problem with --page-breaks-before

[pepak]

At the moment I am running Calibre 0.6.13 (I know there's a 0.6.19 out, but I can't run it as I don't have VC90 runtime installed and it refuses my attempts to install it, and in any case I can't find anything relevant in the changelog). I am having trouble with ebook-convert.exe's --page-breaks-before parameter - it just doesn't work for me. In older versions of Calibre (I guess some 0.6.7 or something like that), I used

ebook-convert.exe book.htm book.lrf --page-breaks-before=//h2

and it would indeed insert a pagebreak before every H2 tag. In 0.6.13 the parameter seems to be ignored and the only way to get a pagebreak is through --chapter-mark=pagebreak. The problem is, of course, that not all of my H2's are chapters, and vice versa.

[pepak]

Interesting: If I use a lot more complicated XPath instead:

--page-breaks-before="//*[re:test(name(), '^h2', 'i')]"

I get my page breaks where I want them. (For the inquiring minds: of course I use my h2 tags in lower-case; that 'i' is just something I add to all my regexps by default.)

[kovidgoyal]

//h:h2

[pepak]

Why is that? The tutorial says that "//h2" should match any h2's wherever in the document tree they are. What does the "h:" prefix mean?

[kovidgoyal]

h: stands for html

The tutorial is out of date (needs to be updated for 0.6)

[pepak]

OK. Thanks for clarification.