Thread: epub to mobi page break on chapters
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Old 02-21-2011, 12:10 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Manichean View Post
I'm guessing that the XPath works in the second ePub->MOBI step? In that case, the original ePub would have some deviation from what Calibre expects that breaks the XPath. The first ePub->ePub conversion would fix that deviation, so it works in the ePub->MOBI step. Try taking a close look at the structure of your original ePubs and comparing that with what the XPath expects.
no the xpath seems to work in the 1st step IF output type is EPUB. after step 1 ( inspecting in sigil )- the epub structure is one file per chapter.
I can then turn xpath off in the 2nd conversion as the book is already sorted.

I still don't get the difference between 1 pass epub to epub _ all OK, and 1 pass epub to mobi - not OK, starting both times with the exact same source.

as I understand calibre pipeline, the xpath stuff is in both cases done on intermediate HTML, before handing off to the output module ?
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