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Originally Posted by eggheadbooks1
What made John such as good development coordinator was that he listened to and understood his user base. Sure, there were those that were dumber than dumb, but I'm not. After all, I did find the solution on my own. My intention by starting this post is to bring to your attention a change/bug/revision that has caused a problem for your users. I'm not going to be the only one who runs into this problem. Thus I find your response perplexing.
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My response was to your vehement argument that this is a bug. It is not. It is a change. A change induced by moving away from Tidy. If that bothers you, then please stay with the Tidy version of Sigil 0.8.6. Tidy will do lots of cleaning for you (up to and including losing large pieces of code). The entire point of the move away from Tidy was to give the ebook author more control over how the finished ebook looks and to greatly reduce the potential for the loss of text. In addition, Tidy is not html5 ready which makes it unsuitable for modern html5 and epub3.
There are many issues that prevent an ebook from validating and Sigil never handled them all (you will still need to properly set the minimal metadata, etc). So all versions of Sigil expect the user to understand the product they are producing. If validation is important to you, then simply run epubcheck or flightcrew and fix the errors you have, just as before. If you want stronger auto-fixing, then use the Tidy version of Sigil. I don't know of any ebook reader who will fail to render the page if no title is present.
If there is demand, and if the new html5 Tidy is buildable/working, I may create a Tidy plugin.
That is all I can offer. Frankly comparing a missing title if and only if it was missing in the input in Sigil-0.9.x to the potential for lost text, stripped mathml, broken svg, and wholesale changes of Sigil-0.8.x's Tidy, I would go with Sigil-0.9.x. And fwiw, user-none agreed with me on the need to remove Tidy and Xerces.
Thanks for your feedback.
KevinH