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Originally Posted by mzmm
i think that <meta> tags with the 'refines' attribute were only introduced in epub3, and that the only dublin:core tags that allowed attributes (specifically the 'role' attribute) were the 'creator' and 'contributor' tags (i.e., <dc:creator opf:role="aut"... <dc:contributor opf:role="dsr"... ).
so basically, in epub2, you can't use <meta refines... for a subtitle, and you can't have a second <dc:title/> element with the attribute opf:role="subtitle".
it seems like part of the reason the idpf is introducing the meta tags to refine roles in epub3 is actually that people/publishers were complaining that they couldn't include subtitles in the metadata.
https://code.google.com/p/epub-revis...d_Subtitles_(A) |
All correct.
I just want to add: unfortunately, as discussed either on IDPF forum or on Twitter w/ tech guys of IDPF (I do not remember exactly), support for these "extended" metadata is scarce and often conflicting between different Reading Systems. So, once again, you might want to stay on the "conservative" side, and use DC metadata elements that were already supported in EPUB 2.