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Originally Posted by twedigteam
Just wanted to throw a quick poll out there to see if anyone has experience using the Oxygen software, and more specifically, if it is worth the investment ($300+ USD for a commercial license). From what I understand, it does give one the ability to modify some of the internal workings of an ePub (.opf editing, etc) without requiring unzipping and rezipping.
It is a pretty hefty price tag and so far, we're quite content with Sigil, just seeing if anyone else had any input on this one...
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Hi,
I played around with it. Definitely not worth it unless you are a developer of true xml, understand xml transforms, etc. It is not a true ebook editor. Although xml is technically what the contents of epubs are they are more xhtml which you can think of as a strict subset of html and not general xml as can be supported by this tool. As for "modifying some of the internal files without needing to zip and unzip" that makes no sense. Some software someplace has to open the zip container and read out the file from the zip container and write it back to the zip container and update the main record at the end of the zip container.
Since there are easy ways to unzip a file (double-click or right click), and simple drag and drop tools to rezip things in proper epub format, I am not sure what you are paying for.
I let my trial license expire and removed it from my machine.