Generate ToC from XPath Problem

marvinn · 09-03-2018, 08:00 PM

I'm trying to create a table of contents based on XPath and running into a problem.

Every chapter is preceded by

Quote:

(That's a NO-BREAK SPACE between the p tags)

However, when I try to use the ToC editor wizard to add entries for
HTML tag = p
Attribute = class
Value = txtb2
only the first chapter gets an entry in the resulting ToC, every other instance is ignored. When I close the ToC editor, the code of the book gets updated so that each tag has been updated to something like:

Quote:

but none of the entries beyond id="toc_1" were added to the ToC.

I created a ToC for another ebook with the same structure a few months ago with no problems, but maybe I've forgotten a subsequent step in the meantime. Can anyone help?

kovidgoyal · 09-03-2018, 11:21 PM

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1735799

marvinn · 09-04-2018, 10:21 PM

Thanks, Kovid. About an hour after posting I went and looked at the changelog for calibre and noticed that the behavior had in fact changed in the last version in the month between my book editing sessions. I temporarily downgraded to 3.29 to generate the ToC I needed.

I submitted a ticket requesting the XPath ignore duplicates to be an optional feature.

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09-03-2018, 11:21 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,331 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1735799

09-04-2018, 10:21 PM	#3
marvinn Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2018 Device: Kindle Voyage	Thanks, Kovid. About an hour after posting I went and looked at the changelog for calibre and noticed that the behavior had in fact changed in the last version in the month between my book editing sessions. I temporarily downgraded to 3.29 to generate the ToC I needed. I submitted a ticket requesting the XPath ignore duplicates to be an optional feature.

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