Thread: Allowing HTML in EPUBS
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Old 09-04-2025, 10:37 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by KevinH View Post
And as for increasing epub adoption, right now you can take html code and put in in Calibre or Sigil and it will nicely be "fixed" to meet the xml serialization rules needed for epub. So using html for authoring works already exists. We (Sigil) already encourage users to use Word, OpenOffice, LibreOffice (ie. real writing tools) to create the source matter and then they can use Sigil or Calibre to make it meet the epub standards.
The question becomes why shouldn't html be allowed in the epub spec if the code to "fix" it to XML is straight-forward: the code could just as easily be in the book-reader software as in the book-creation software.
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