[HTML → EPUB] Create ToC from file?

[Shohreh]

Hello,

I'm trying to have Pandoc grab a page from the web and turn it into an EPUB file.

The following works… but fails generating a ToC.

Google didn't help finding if Pandoc can be told to read the ToC from a file, and how to format it. FWIW, the web page includes a ToC as a "nav" tag.

Cheers,

pandoc -f html -t epub3 --toc --toc-depth=2 --epub-title-page=false --metadata=title="My Title" --metadata=author="My Author" -o MyFile.epub https://www.acme.com/MyBook.html

<div class="toc">
   <nav id="TOC" role="doc-toc">
      <ul>
      <li><a href="#blah" id="blah"><span class="toc-section-number">1</span>Blah</a>
      </ul>
   </nav>
</div>

[g4lb]

--toc uses headings (<h1>, <h2>), not <nav>. No option reads a ToC from a file.
<div> titles give an empty ToC, <h1> titles fill it.

[Shohreh]

That's too bad.

The nav tree does points to Hx tags, so I'm surprised Pandoc is unable to build a ToC from that.

<nav id="TOC" role="doc-toc">
  <ul>
  <li><a href="#anchor1"><span class="toc-section-number">1</span>My Title</a>
  <ul>
  ...
</nav>
<div class="body">
<h1 id="anchor1"><span>1</span>My Title</h1>

--
Edit: Sigil did nothing. Still no ToC

--
Edit: Is Pandoc lost because the Hx tags are within a div?

<div class="body">
<h1 id="anchor1"><span>1</span>My Title</h1>

[g4lb]

Your HTML gives a full ToC on pandoc 3.11, What does pandoc --version show?

[Shohreh]

It's 3.11 on Windows.

It worked by telling Pandoc to save it as epub2, and then adding the ToC in Sigil. I don't know if the problem lies in the Kobo Clara or my wrongly using Sigil.

pandoc -f html -t epub2 --toc --epub-title-page=false --metadata=title="My Title" --metadata=author="My Author" -o output.epub https://www.acme.com