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Originally Posted by Doitsu
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. |
Thx, Doits. Not worried; just don't understand what on earth they were thinking, other than...well, just ONE "toc," I guess.
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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.
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Excellent points, all round. (I honestly thought, initially, he was discussing DocBook, which for all intents and purposes, DOES do what he wants, as near as I can tell.) Great pointer on the meta-refines, too. In fact, I didn't know that much about using those, so I've saved it to read through.
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