html does not generate TOC

iliakan · 01-04-2015, 12:40 PM

The file is:

Code:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Document</h1>
  
  <h2>Test 1</h2>
    <h3>Test 1.1</h3>
    <h3>Test 1.2</h3>
  <h2>Test 2</h2>
    ...
</body>
</html>

I want a nested TOC in epub & pdf formats. As of now, no TOC is generated.

What I tried:

Code:

/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert 2.html 2.epub --level1-toc '//h2' --level2-toc '//h3' -vv

What I get:

Code:

iliakan> /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert 2.html 2.epub --level1-toc '//h2' --level2-toc '//h3' -vv
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.14.0
{'asciiize': False,
 'author_sort': None,
 'authors': None,
 'base_font_size': 0,
 'book_producer': None,
 'breadth_first': False,
 'change_justification': 'original',
 'chapter': "//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\\s+)|((prolog|prologue|epilogue)(\\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
 'chapter_mark': 'pagebreak',
 'comments': None,
 'cover': None,
 'debug_pipeline': None,
 'dehyphenate': True,
 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
 'disable_font_rescaling': False,
 'dont_package': False,
 'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
 'embed_all_fonts': False,
 'embed_font_family': None,
 'enable_heuristics': False,
 'epub_flatten': False,
 'epub_inline_toc': False,
 'epub_toc_at_end': False,
 'expand_css': False,
 'extra_css': None,
 'extract_to': None,
 'filter_css': None,
 'fix_indents': True,
 'flow_size': 260,
 'font_size_mapping': None,
 'format_scene_breaks': True,
 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
 'input_encoding': None,
 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x10ef22a10>,
 'insert_blank_line': False,
 'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
 'insert_metadata': False,
 'isbn': None,
 'italicize_common_cases': True,
 'keep_ligatures': False,
 'language': None,
 'level1_toc': u'//h2',
 'level2_toc': u'//h3',
 'level3_toc': None,
 'line_height': 0,
 'linearize_tables': False,
 'margin_bottom': 5.0,
 'margin_left': 5.0,
 'margin_right': 5.0,
 'margin_top': 5.0,
 'markup_chapter_headings': True,
 'max_levels': 5,
 'max_toc_links': 50,
 'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
 'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
 'no_default_epub_cover': False,
 'no_inline_navbars': False,
 'no_svg_cover': False,
 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.OutputProfile object at 0x10ef22dd0>,
 'page_breaks_before': "//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
 'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
 'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
 'pretty_print': True,
 'pubdate': None,
 'publisher': None,
 'rating': None,
 'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
 'remove_fake_margins': True,
 'remove_first_image': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
 'renumber_headings': True,
 'replace_scene_breaks': '',
 'search_replace': None,
 'series': None,
 'series_index': None,
 'smarten_punctuation': False,
 'sr1_replace': '',
 'sr1_search': '',
 'sr2_replace': '',
 'sr2_search': '',
 'sr3_replace': '',
 'sr3_search': '',
 'start_reading_at': None,
 'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
 'tags': None,
 'timestamp': None,
 'title': None,
 'title_sort': None,
 'toc_filter': None,
 'toc_threshold': 6,
 'toc_title': None,
 'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
 'unwrap_lines': True,
 'use_auto_toc': False,
 'verbose': 2}
1% Converting input to HTML...
InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running
on /Users/iliakan/Downloads/2.html
Language not specified
Creator not specified
Building file list...
	Found files...
		 HTMLFile:0:a:/Users/iliakan/Downloads/2.html
Normalizing filename cases
Rewriting HTML links
Parsing 2.html ...
Forcing 2.html into XHTML namespace
34% Running transforms on ebook...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Auto generated TOC with 0 entries.
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Source base font size is 14.04000pt
Removing fake margins...
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Creating EPUB Output...
67% Running EPUB Output plugin
Splitting markup on page breaks and flow limits, if any...
		Splitting on page-break at id=calibre_pb_0
		Splitting on page-break at id=calibre_pb_1
	Looking for large trees in 2.html...
	No large trees found
	Split into 2 parts
Generating default cover
This EPUB file has no Table of Contents. Creating a default TOC
EPUB output written to /Users/iliakan/Downloads/2.epub
Output saved to   /Users/iliakan/Downloads/2.epub

As you can see, no Table of Contents.

P.S. I also tried --chapter "//*[((name()='h2' or name()='h3') and re:test(., '.*', 'i'))]", it worked, but generated a plain TOC, not a nested one.

I tried a number of other ways. The file is so simple, it just must work.

iliakan · 01-04-2015, 12:41 PM

P.S. The actual title should be "html does not generate TOC", sorry, somehow it got cut.

kovidgoyal · 01-04-2015, 10:08 PM

You forgot the h: prefix

iliakan · 01-05-2015, 01:56 PM

Thanks a lot, Kovid! Magically, it worked!

By the way, why the h: prefix?

In Chrome and Firefox, I just use XPath //h2 and it works.

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01-04-2015, 12:41 PM	#2
iliakan Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Device: iphone 6	P.S. The actual title should be "html does not generate TOC", sorry, somehow it got cut.

01-04-2015, 10:08 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,221 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You forgot the h: prefix

01-05-2015, 01:56 PM	#4
iliakan Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Device: iphone 6	Thanks a lot, Kovid! Magically, it worked! By the way, why the h: prefix? In Chrome and Firefox, I just use XPath //h2 and it works.

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