Xpath error for splitting html/creating TOC

lealla · 06-19-2015, 08:24 AM

Hi all!

First post and all, hoping for some advice on xpath in Calibre Edit Book.

I had it all working beautifully using xpath to find chapters, split the html and create toc links from the individual files.

Suddenly, this doesn't work anymore.

If I run

(//*[re:test(., "Chapter", "i")])

- on any file, I get an error saying:

Quote:

ERROR Unhandled Exception

AbortError Cannot split on the
tag.

calibre, version 2.31.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AbortError</b>:Cannot split on the <body> tag

calibre 2.31 [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.9
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: EpubMerge && EpubSplit && Goodreads
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\boss.py", line 1059, in multisplit
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\polish\split.py", line 266, in multisplit
AbortError: Cannot split on the <body> tag

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have tried resetting all options to default, with no luck.

I'm wondering now if I'm accidentally putting in the wrong xpath code, and somehow changed it without noticing.

If I have the wrong code for "find all instances of the word 'chapter' and split document, please correct me!
I'm using: (//*[re:test(., "Chapter", "i")]) right now. I thought I'd been using it all along, but now I'm not so sure!

Thank you!

eschwartz · 07-01-2015, 04:20 AM

Perhaps the content you are trying to split on is just raw text dumped in the html <body> element, rather than in a <p> tag?

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07-01-2015, 04:20 AM	#2
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Perhaps the content you are trying to split on is just raw text dumped in the html <body> element, rather than in a <p> tag?

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