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emellaich · 07-27-2009, 09:59 PM

Hello all,

I'm just looking for some clarification on XPath. I've been playing around and its not doing what I expected, so I thought I would ask a quick question here. In the Calibre help it gives the following:

//h2[re:test(., 'chapter|section', 'i')]
(Selects <h2> tags that contain the words chapter or section)

What exactly is meant by contains? Does 1) or 2) below contain 'chapter'?

1) <h2 attribute=chapter>Headline</h2>

2) <h2>Chapter</h2>

Also, what do I do to force a pagebreak before a chapter break. I am converting from epub (html) to mobi. I've checked the appropriate meta data box, but it doesn't seem to be working. Maybe its my XPath problem. Or is there some other trick?

07-27-2009, 09:59 PM	#1
emellaich Wizard Posts: 1,101 Karma: 4388403 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: Palm>Ebookman>IPaq>Axim>Cybook>Kndl2>IPAD>Kndl3SO>Voyager>Oasis	XPath Help and Pagebreak Hello all, I'm just looking for some clarification on XPath. I've been playing around and its not doing what I expected, so I thought I would ask a quick question here. In the Calibre help it gives the following: //h2[re:test(., 'chapter\|section', 'i')] (Selects <h2> tags that contain the words chapter or section) What exactly is meant by contains? Does 1) or 2) below contain 'chapter'? 1) <h2 attribute=chapter>Headline</h2> 2) <h2>Chapter</h2> Also, what do I do to force a pagebreak before a chapter break. I am converting from epub (html) to mobi. I've checked the appropriate meta data box, but it doesn't seem to be working. Maybe its my XPath problem. Or is there some other trick?