Thread: What does epub:type="chapter" mean?
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Old 11-23-2015, 07:14 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by phossler View Post
thanks -- the pointer to epub3 helped. It's apparently something to do with accessability

http://www.idpf.org/accessibility/gu.../epub-type.php
In plain English, it's a load of rubbish. It does nothing for anyone. It's just extra code that is meaningless. In ePub 2 there is the guide in the OPF which says what the order is. There's no need for this section garbage. It's just another useless feature added to ePub 3. ePub 3 still has the guide in the OPF and that works perfectly to specify the order of the XML files. You can get rid of the section tags without any loss of functionality.

What I have been doing with these new ePub 3 is converting them back to ePub 2 as they have nothing in them that cannot be done with ePub 2. It just makes the code more convoluted to go ePub 3 for no good reason.
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