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Old 11-24-2015, 01:06 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by Sarmat89 View Post
It is obviously better, as it is more clear this way than generic divs/paragraphs with arbitrary classes assigned.
Once again, (X)HTML was designed for computer manuals, not books. Take any book and tell me what elements have its semantic representation in HTML: Title page/Title -- none, Dedication -- none, Epigraph -- none, chapter titles -- none again, 'letters' -- none! Everything has to be imitated with the direct formatting!
I can recall two books which used it for in-universe text correction.
I wrote a big long response to this, and eschwartz' response, and realized that this is a honking waste of time.

Sarmat89: how many ePUBs have you built? I'm not snarking, I'm asking so that I can try to understand your frame of reference. And how many XML-->XSLT to eBook transformations have you done?

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