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Old 07-11-2016, 12:25 PM   #1
Milica Who
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XML characters in metadata

Hi, this is the first time I'm posting here...sorry if I'm in the wrong place, but I'm not very familiar with how mobile read works (i.e. threads and such).

Anyway I have a problem when editing metadata with Calibre. Actually with showing said metadata in my ebook reader (I use Bookari, a.k.a. Mantano). You see, when I download metadata from, let's say, Amazon, and modify epub, comment (book info) should show in ebook reader, but it doesn't. Eventually, I discovered that the problem is in these xml tags: < and > in content.opf. Mantano won't read description in content.opf that starts with these tags. I have no idea how can I configure calibre not to put these.

Books the comments of which Mantano reads have only <dc:description> and </dc:description> at the beginning and the end , respectively, in content.opf. HTML source (in edit metadata window) of books that have their own description (which Mantano reads) and the books the metadata of which Calibre downloaded shows that tags used are the same (<p class="description"> , <div>, etc.) in both cases. When I erase those xml tags from description section in content.opf and leave only bare text and save changes, Calibre just puts them back. When I erase them in Sigil, they stay erased. So, the only thing that's left is that Calibre is forcing these tags in content.opf.

Is there anyway around this? Without manually editing content.opf of every book. Something in Calibre configuration?

Thanks in advance! And thanks for all the work!
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