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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Can you get calibre? As I said, you can do a final bulk Modify EPUB on all your EPUBs, to remove all non-DC metadata.
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Removing all non-DC metadata will also remove the cover image metadata entry that some apps use.
And since I haven't figured out how to prevent Calibre from adding its own metadata entries and bookmark files I don't think that metadata handling with Calibre would be such a good idea.
@sbin: I've created an alpha version of an Python 3 Sigil output plugin that'll only delete the following Sigil metadata entry:
Code:
<meta content="XXX" name="Sigil version"/>
(It'll also change the doctype of XHTML files of epub files saved with Sigil 0.8.x.)
from:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
to
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
Install the plugin as usual and select it via Plugins > Output > DeleteSigilMetadata.
(The plugin will save the updated file to the Desktop.)
Since the plugin will update the .opf file and repack the ePub file and I'm not a programmer, there's a slight possibility that this'll introduce new problems.
If you decide to use the plugin in a production environment, you might want to test it with a number of files. I.e. unzip the original epub and the epub generated by this plugin and compare both folders with a diff program.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
In case you're looking for a plugin, use KevinH's
sampleOutput.zip instead.