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Originally Posted by Sarmat89

Such things are possible with simple EPUB editors like OO.o plugin or Sigil, with their ascetic UI.
If the metadata dialog follows the XML scheme and gives you nice form with "First Name", "Last Name" fields, with autocomplete and "look online", the possibility to have malformed metadata is much, much less.

Now you've lost me. Or maybe I've lost it.



As you so wisely point out, we already have that right now.
And it still doesn't stop authors from putting absolute garbage in there. Even though the correct metadata fields are staring them in the face and waving little red and green flags.

Adding more metadata fields to the exact same, pre-existing UI is not going to make them use the new fields, any more than it will stop them from ignoring the old ones!