[Bug 166016] EPUB output requires metadata to be entered each time

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166016

V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7)
> The EPUB export provides the metadata 
> * Identifier (not taken from #1), 


(In reply to Miklos Vajna from comment #8)
> IIRC epub identifier is meant to be a UUID, while epub title is indeed
> similar to the document title (that's why it's autofilled).
> 
> See writerperfect/qa/uitest/epubexport/epubexport.py:108 for a sample epub
> identifier.
> 
> So unless I'm missing something, autofilling the epub identifier from the
> document title is not a good idea.
> 

Use of UUID (RFC 9562 May 2024) as EPUB identifier is not universal, a
registered DOI is often more useful, and some folks prefer to structure a URI. 

But IMHO creating/assigning the 'Identifier' field for a given EPUB export
should be read per-document from its Properties... dialog. We added the dc:
properties as for see also bug 138792, both PDF and EPUB export should honor
those fields.

Users needing persistence should prepopulate via their template work flows.

The EPUB Export should be adjusted to make use of the per-document field
content  recorded to Properties... dialog, both the fixed field from the
General and Description tabs, but potentially the Custom Properties.

A lot of room in both the EPUB and the PDF export dialogs for handling metadata
like this.  But key would be consistent handling of metadata extracted from
user profile or document properties.

It should all be populated--and then the export dialogs should expose those
values during export for author review.  That workflow tracks with current File
-> Properties... dialog where we have checkbox to 'Apply user data'

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