EPUB 3.0 Title order not handled properly

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PROBLEM:

The checker does not select the correct title when multiple dc:title elements 
are present in the OPF metadata, according to EPUB 3.0 spec. The spec allows 
for meta properties "title-type" and "display-seq" to be attached to a dc:title 
element using the "refines" attribute, but the checker seems to ignore these 
and always uses the last value seen. The spec also says that, in lieu of other 
selection criteria, the first dc:title element should be selected as the main 
title, whereas the checker appears to choose the last.

METHOD:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create an OPF with the following metadata:
<dc:title id='title'>My Main Title</dc:title>
    <meta refines="#title" property="title-type">main</meta>
    <meta refines="#title" property="display-seq">1</meta>
<dc:title id='subtitle2'>First Subtitle</dc:title>
    <meta refines="#subtitle2" property="title-type">subtitle</meta>
    <meta refines="#subtitle2" property="display-seq">2</meta>
<dc:title id='subtitle3'>Another subtitle</dc:title>
    <meta refines="#subtitle3" property="title-type">subtitle</meta>
    <meta refines="#subtitle3" property="display-seq">3</meta>
2. Run epubcheck against the created document, outputting to an XML log file.

RESULT:

The XML log from epubcheck reports that the Title property is "Another 
subtitle".

EXPECTED:

Expected the Title Property to be "My Main Title"

PLATFORM:

Epubcheck v3.0, Java v1.7.0_17, Windows XP

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mearn...@gmail.com on 1 May 2013 at 2:11

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This issue was closed by revision r461.

Original comment by tledou...@gmail.com on 12 May 2013 at 6:49

• Changed state: Fixed

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Original comment by rdeltour@gmail.com on 27 May 2013 at 10:28

• Added labels: Milestone-3.0.1