Re: [docbook-apps] two date entries in EPUB package.opf file

[Peter Lavin <lavin.peter@gmail.com>]

Thanks Bob. It validates just fine now.

On 11 August 2014 17:21, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:

Hi Peter,
Yes, the dates still are not handled quite correctly.  Currently the date can come from <date>, <pubdate>, or copyright/year.  There should be a single template that selects one based on a priority,  which I presume would be pubdate, date, then copyright/year.  I'll log this as a bug.

Currently date and copyright/year are mutually exclusive for the date metadata, so if you change your pubdate element to a date element in the info, then it will output a single date in the opf.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 8/11/2014 9:53 AM, Peter Lavin wrote:

Hi,

I'm using the the 1.78.1-ns style sheets to create an EPUB.

Within the book.info <http://book.info> tag I want to include both a
copyright.year tag and a pubdate tag--publication dates are quite
distinct from copyright years.

When validating using Epubcheck Version 3.0.1 I get the following error:

ERROR: docbook.epub/OEBPS/package.opf(19,14): element "dc:date" not
allowed here

Two date entries are created in the package.opf file, one resulting from
the pubdate tag and one from the copyright.year tag.

<meta property="dcterms:date">2014-09-01</meta>
<dc:date>2014-09-01</dc:date>
<meta property="dcterms:date">2014</meta>
<dc:date>2014</dc:date>
This seems to violate the EPUB requirement that there be only one DCMES
date element. This is easy enough to fix after the fact but I don't see
an easy workaround. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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