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Originally Posted by Hitch
Myself, it's the landmarks vesus the NCX. I genuinely don't understand why on earth we have to throw out the baby with the bathwater. I don't see what Landmarks gets us, really.
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The only advantage that a navigation document with landmarks has over an NCX file is that it can be easier updated, because it's basically an .xhtml file with some additional tags and attributes. I wouldn't worry too much about it, because it can be automatically generated from an .ncx file with the Sigil
epub3 plugin.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
[...] the OP can't fully or clearly express what he wants, or because he doesn't know XXX (e.g., about the DC data for ePUB), that he's simply erroneous. [...] By now, the OP here would have pointed at a usable standard, or something. The fact that he keeps saying that what he wants isn't DocBook really should have been the tell [...]
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IMHO, DocBook is the closest thing to what the OP wants, and as you know it hasn't really caught on and I seriously doubt that it ever will. The fact that the OP hasn't mentioned it once is a clear sign that he doesn't know anything about markup languages for ebooks or other markup languages for that matter.
And as for the metadata shortcomings, he could theoretically define as many custom metadata entries in ePub3 ebooks as he wants using
meta refines.