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Old 05-20-2013, 06:25 AM   #3
simobk
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Hi Toxaris and thanks for the answer.

First of all, I guess the fact that you're answering these questions means that there is no automated tool yet

I googled a bit and read a bit more. This is what I came up as being "correct" metadata that contains the fields I am interested in :
PHP Code:
<metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:opf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
  <
dc:creator opf:role="aut" opf:file-as="Arthur Conan Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</dc:creator>
  <
dc:title opf:file-as="A Study in Scarlet">A Study in Scarlet</dc:title>
  <
dc:date>1887</dc:date>
  <
dc:subject>DetectiveCrimeMysteryNovel</dc:subject>
  <
dc:description>A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyleintroducing his new character of Sherlock Holmeswho later became one of the most famous literary detective characters.</dc:description>
  <
dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <
dc:identifier id="BookId">urn:uuid:9ef8ecb0-c134-11e2-8b8b-0800200c9a66</dc:identifier>
</
metadata
Does that look to you like correct metadata? I'm specially wondering if I am putting the right stuff in subject and description? I also couldn't find "standard" separators for the subjects?

I will take a look later at the ePub 2.0.1 specs. I'll try to find a more "to the point" source though!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxaris View Post
Ad 4: no, that is not required. Only author, title and language are hard required.
I guess that means I'll have to use conditional statements, if there's a "cover.jpg", use it as a cover, otherwise, use the first image that appears as the cover. I'll read more about it later as I am under the impression there needs to be an associated xhtml.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxaris View Post
Packing must be done according to certain rules, or the result will no longer be an ePUB file.
Care to develop?

There goes my hope for a "quick" solution!
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