Hi, I tried in XML Author to transform a small and simple docbook file using the included build.xml file. I used an example file already included with Oxygen. I added a chapter and removed the address element (for reasons explained below). *********************************** <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-model href="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/rng/docbook.rng" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?> <book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> <info> <title>Book Template Title</title> <author> <orgname>Organization Name</orgname> <email>user@example.com</email> </author> </info> <part> <title>First Part</title> <subtitle>Subtitle of First Part</subtitle> <chapter> <title>Chapter Title</title> <subtitle>Subtitle of Chapter</subtitle> <sect1> <title>Section1 Title</title> <subtitle>Subtitle of Section 1</subtitle> <para>Text hello this is robert </para> </sect1> </chapter> <chapter> <title>Second chapter</title> <para> This is the second chapter. </para> </chapter> </part> </book> ************************************** I used the ant script to transform this small xml file into epub. I did produce an epub file, but it did not validate with epubcheck. Here are the validation messages: SystemID: zip:file:/I:/My Documents/My Dropbox/xml/oxygen-mytest/out/dummy.epub!/content.opf Engine name: EpubCheck Severity: error Description: item with id 'd0e2' not found Start location: 1:0 SystemID: I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\dummy.epub Engine name: EpubCheck Severity: warning Description: item (index.html) exists in the zip file, but is not declared in the OPF file SystemID: zip:file:/I:/My Documents/My Dropbox/xml/oxygen-mytest/out/dummy.epub!/toc.ncx Engine name: EpubCheck Severity: error Description: 'index.html': referenced resource exists, but not declared in the OPF file Start location: 1:0 ********************** Here is the content.opf file. I put marks where there were problems <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" version="2.0" unique-identifier="bookid"> <metadata> <dc:identifier xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" id="bookid">_d0e2</dc:identifier> <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Book Template Title</dc:title> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:opf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" opf:file-as=""/> <dc:language xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">en</dc:language> </metadata> <manifest> <item id="ncxtoc" media-type="application/x-dtbncx+xml" href="toc.ncx"/> <item id="htmltoc" media-type="application/xhtml+xml" href="bk01-toc.html"/> <item id="d0e11" href="pt01.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/> <item id="d0e16" href="ch01.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/> <item id="d0e28" href="ch02.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/> </manifest> <spine toc="ncxtoc"> <itemref idref="htmltoc" linear="yes"/> <itemref idref="d0e2"/> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX <itemref idref="d0e11"/> <itemref idref="d0e16"/> <itemref idref="d0e28"/> </spine> <guide> <reference href="bk01-toc.html" type="toc" title="Table of Contents"/> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX NO INDEX.HTML reference </guide> </package> ******************************************************************** The ant log is below. Please note that I later ran the db2epub.py script via command line with no customization layer using docbook-xsl-1.76.1 and produced an epub file validated by epubcheck. The index.html file was correctly referenced. A few other notes. First, db2epub.py did produce a kind of html output error with the address containing a single invalid p tag. I don't know what's going on with that, but that could be a docbook xsl bug. Second, I seem to recall that when my customization layer referenced the namespaced version of the epub docbook xsl that occasionally it produced extra references in content.opf. Keith Fahlgren basically said it was related to using the namespaced XSL when making epub transforms. I would appreciate any insight you can shed on this. Thanks. Robert Executing: "c:\program files (x86)\oxygen xml editor 13\jre/bin/java" -Xmx256m -classpath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13/tools/ant/lib/ant-launcher.jar" "-Dant.home=C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13/tools/ant" org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\classes" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\oxygen.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\oxygenAuthor.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\oxygenDeveloper.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\oxygenEclipse.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\oxygenAuthorEclipse.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\oxygenDeveloperEclipse.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\resolver.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\xercesImpl.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\saxon.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\xml-apis-xpath.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\xml-apis-ext.jar" -lib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\lib\log4j.jar" -f "C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks/docbook/xsl/epub/bin/build.xml" "-Dchunker.output.encoding=UTF-8" "-DoutputFile=I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest/out/dummy.epub" "-DxmlFile=I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\dummy.xml" Buildfile: C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\bin\build.xml dist: [delete] Deleting directory I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out [mkdir] Created dir: I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out [copy] Copying 1 file to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\dummy.xml to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\xincluded-profiled.xml [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\profiling\profile.xsl [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\xincluded-profiled.xml to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\dummy.xml [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\docbook.xsl [xslt] Writing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out/bk01-toc.html for book [xslt] Writing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out/ch01.html for chapter [xslt] Writing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out/ch02.html for chapter [xslt] Writing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out/pt01.html for part [xslt] Writing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out/index.html for book [xslt] Writing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out/toc.ncx [xslt] Writing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out/content.opf [xslt] Writing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out/META-INF/container.xml [delete] Deleting: I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\dummy.xml [delete] Deleting: I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\xincluded-profiled.xml [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\content.opf to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\content.opf [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\removeImagesContentOpf.xsl [copy] Copying 1 file to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out images: [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\bk01-toc.html to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\bk01-toc.html [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\images.xsl [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\content.opf to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\content.opf [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\addImagesContentOpf.xsl [copy] Copying 1 file to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out images: [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\ch01.html to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\ch01.html [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\images.xsl [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\content.opf to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\content.opf [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\addImagesContentOpf.xsl [copy] Copying 1 file to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out images: [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\ch02.html to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\ch02.html [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\images.xsl [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\content.opf to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\content.opf [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\addImagesContentOpf.xsl [copy] Copying 1 file to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out images: [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\index.html to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\index.html [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\images.xsl [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\content.opf to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\content.opf [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\addImagesContentOpf.xsl [copy] Copying 1 file to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out images: [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\pt01.html to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\pt01.html [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\images.xsl [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\content.opf to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\content.opf [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\addImagesContentOpf.xsl [copy] Copying 1 file to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out [copy] Copying 5 files to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out [delete] Deleting directory I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\toc.ncx to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\toc.ncx [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\copy.xsl [copy] Copying 1 file to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out [xslt] Processing I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\META-INF\container.xml to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\temp\container.xml [xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\Program Files (x86)\Oxygen XML Editor 13\frameworks\docbook\xsl\epub\copy.xsl [copy] Copying 1 file to I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\META-INF [zip] Building zip: I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\dummy.epub [zip] Updating zip: I:\My Documents\My Dropbox\xml\oxygen-mytest\out\dummy.epub BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 3 seconds The process finished with exit code: 0 -- Robert Nagle 6121 Winsome Ln #56C, Houston TX 77057-5581 (H) 713 893 3424/ (W) 832-251-7522 Carbon Neutral Since Jan 2010 http://www.robertnagle.info