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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I knew you wouldn't be able to control yourself.  |
I know. It's
dreadful, isn't it? but...I can't
stand puzzles that I can't solve. It's one thing to see someone here that is adamant that they want X, for example, and think "nope, can't do," or "sure" or whatever. But this was really driving me bats. The
why of it. It's most likely a puzzle that wasn't worth the solving of it, but I'm like those damn rats in the maze--gotta get to the end. (You should see me with Chinese Puzzle boxes. Oish.)
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Well, yes -- XML would do a lot to solve his problems (I think, because I still can't be positive I know what the root of the complaint is  that's what you get for not being straightforward about what's really bothering you). If he would accept reformulating his mental approach.
Now, is this also a good place to point out calibre can store arbitrarily defined custom columns with whatever schema purpose one desires?
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I'm now fairly certain that this really IS all about the metadata and semantics. Otherwise, his 3 comments about colophon don't gel. If you view them, however, strictly with an eye to categorization, sorting, etc., THEN, it makes sense. Mind you, he's wrong about the colophon always providing "tagging" (data! The light dawns!), but if you think of it that way, it finally starts to make some sense. If you don't think of it that way, the colophon-tagging comment is utterly crackers, given that they are, 99% of the time,
when they exist, in print books.
Our problem, @eschwartz, m'dear, is we actually
were thinking about ePUB, itself, silly us. He's not. He says he is, but he isn't. Not the way that you and I and Tox, etc., think about ePUB.
And yes: put the poor lad out of his misery, would you? I know that Calibre CAN do this--and that you can export an XML list from Calibre, of your own catalogue--but I'm not a big Calibre user, as you know. So if you'd kindly take pity on him and alert him to how to do that, or where he can find out best how to do that, we might finally put paid to this.
Hitch
(Not kidding this time....)