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Old 04-18-2013, 04:50 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by AlPe View Post
I come here to say precisely this. The initial investment of time might be higher than using crappy InDesign, but it pays off as soon as you have more than a couple of eBooks to convert.
Plus the "master CSS" file makes it easy as pie to fix any errors you find instead of having to do it on a per-book basis.

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Originally Posted by AlPe View Post
Plus, there are DocBook -> EPUB (via XSLT) tools around, which you might find useful to start from. For example:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/epub3/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xm.../section5.html
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery/DocBook_to_ePub
Fantastic, thanks for the info. I will have to look into this as well.

I am very interested in the long-term storage of ebooks, and storing them in a way which will make it (relatively) easy/automated to convert into other formats in the future.

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Not trying to mean or pick on you in particular but why do you include the Doctype when you have already declared the doc an XML file? I always exclude the doctype. [...]
I just quickly pulled it out of an EPUB I was working on as an example to clarify the "multiple passes"... I wasn't trying to make the code as minimal as possible.
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