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Originally Posted by slowsmile
The 'lang' and 'id' attributes are garbage in what I'm doing at the moment. I'm currently writing a plugin to convert opendoc html to epub. This means that you have to initially remove all bookmarks and the TOC from the html as part of the html clean up process. My plugin app then regenerates a new TOC on conversion to epub.
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No problem. As I said, it's a very useful snippet for deleting attributes with bs4, I was just nervous about folks associating the "id" parameter as garbage or proprietary.
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Originally Posted by slowsmile
And apart from the lang declaration in the html header namespace, the lang attributes within the html code itself also seems to be completely superfluous. I've never seen 'lang' used in epubs within the html code.
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Multi-language epubs (or epubs that just display other languages) can make use of it extensively. It's why Sigil's spellchecking is being enhanced to parse the lang attribute in the html. You might not ever encounter it, but it's not really that rare.
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Originally Posted by slowsmile
I've also read that the 'name' attribute is now also deprecated, which is why 'id' should always be used in epubs now.
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is deprecated, but it will often still "work." That's why converting "names" to "id" can be beneficial when working with cluttered/proprietary/old html.