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Originally Posted by Laurens
Might even consider adding Fictionbook support to Sunrise XP. The format seems to be clearly defined XML. Surely it's much easier to support than Plucker.
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While FictionBook 2.0 has its flaws, at least it uses a structure that actually comes from books rather than web pages. An e-reading program can at least tell what is a title at any level in the book. And by formalizing the structure in an XML schema, FB2 enables e-readers to eliminate a lot of error-handling code to process bad markup.
I'm just now working up a few titles in this format. When I've found the time to finish them up, I'll post them in various public venues and let people know here.
I think it would neat to add this support. For one thing, it would provide a way to read feed-based titles on a Windows laptop, which isn't possible with the Plucker pdb format.
I didn't mention all the metadata that's collected -- you might locate FBTools and look over the dialogs in its FBEditor to see them all; I suspect you'd have to add some similar ones to Sunrise.
And as I think about it while writing this post, I agree with you pretty strongly. The support for FB2 ought to be really straightforward, given its straightforward nature.
Does Sunrise include an XML parser/validator? (I guess I should look in the other forum and ask that question there, shouldn't I?
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