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Simplify language selection in package document #508

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mattgarrish opened this issue Nov 28, 2024 · 2 comments
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Simplify language selection in package document #508

mattgarrish opened this issue Nov 28, 2024 · 2 comments
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a11y-display-techniques-epub Issue with the epub accessibility metadata display techniques

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mattgarrish commented Nov 28, 2024

Ignoring #503 for now, the javascript xpath resolver also reports the expression to get the language of the summary is invalid:

/package/metadata/meta[@property="schema:accessibilitySummary"]/(@lang|ancestor::*/@lang)[last()]

I haven't dug into what it specifically doesn't like, but I can see right away that it will never match the language and it's more complicated than needed for epub processing.

The big issue here is that it is looking for a lang attribute but the package document only allows xml:lang.

But there are also only two locations where you can get the language of a metadata element: on the element itself or from the root package element. You don't need to inspect the ancestor chain because the only other element in the ancestor chain is metadata and it's not allowed to have an xml:lang declaration.

In other words, for getting the language, you only need to check:

/package/metadata/meta[@property="schema:accessibilitySummary"]/@xml:lang

or:

/package/@xml:lang

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I haven't dug into what it specifically doesn't like,

For anyone interested, it looks like it's any expression using features above xpath 1.0. Most of the processing is easily implemented in javascript, but there are a couple of sticking points.

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Combining the above, I was able to use this to get the language for the summary:

(/opf:package/opf:metadata/opf:meta[@property="schema:accessibilitySummary"]/@xml:lang | /opf:package/@xml:lang)[last()]

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