diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
index 76a6648e8d..ed7981df4f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
@@ -272,11 +272,26 @@ def XPath(expr):
 def xpath(elem, expr):
     return elem.xpath(expr, namespaces=XPNSMAP)
 
-def xml2str(root, pretty_print=False):
-    return etree.tostring(root, encoding='utf-8', xml_declaration=True,
+def _prepare_xml_for_serialization(root):
+    root.set('xmlns', XHTML_NS)
+    root.set('{%s}xlink'%XHTML_NS, XLINK_NS)
+    for x in root.iter():
+        if hasattr(x.tag, 'rpartition') and x.tag.rpartition('}')[-1].lower() == 'svg':
+            x.set('xmlns', SVG_NS)
+
+def xml2str(root, pretty_print=False, strip_comments=False):
+    _prepare_xml_for_serialization(root)
+    ans = etree.tostring(root, encoding='utf-8', xml_declaration=True,
                           pretty_print=pretty_print)
 
+    if strip_comments:
+        ans = re.compile(r'<!--.*?-->', re.DOTALL).sub('', ans)
+
+    return ans
+
+
 def xml2unicode(root, pretty_print=False):
+    _prepare_xml_for_serialization(root)
     return etree.tostring(root, pretty_print=pretty_print)
 
 ASCII_CHARS   = set(chr(x) for x in xrange(128))
@@ -826,6 +841,11 @@ def __str__(self):
                 return xml2str(data, pretty_print=self.oeb.pretty_print)
             if isinstance(data, unicode):
                 return data.encode('utf-8')
+            if hasattr(data, 'cssText'):
+                data = data.cssText
+                if isinstance(data, unicode):
+                    data = data.encode('utf-8')
+                return data
             return str(data)
 
         def __unicode__(self):
@@ -834,6 +854,8 @@ def __unicode__(self):
                 return xml2unicode(data, pretty_print=self.oeb.pretty_print)
             if isinstance(data, unicode):
                 return data
+            if hasattr(data, 'cssText'):
+                return data.cssText
             return unicode(data)
 
         def __eq__(self, other):
@@ -1044,6 +1066,12 @@ def remove(self, item):
             self.items[i].spine_position = i
         item.spine_position = None
 
+    def index(self, item):
+        for i, x in enumerate(self):
+            if item == x:
+                return i
+        return -1
+
     def __iter__(self):
         for item in self.items:
             yield item
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/iterator.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/iterator.py
index ec0eda908a..8672d42e2b 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/iterator.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/iterator.py
@@ -162,7 +162,6 @@ def __enter__(self):
             s.pages = p
         start = 1
 
-
         for s in self.spine:
             s.start_page = start
             start += s.pages
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/output.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/output.py
index ea986f49fa..480ca3776e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/output.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/output.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ def convert(self, oeb_book, output_path, input_plugin, opts, log):
         if not os.path.exists(output_path):
             os.makedirs(output_path)
         from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import OPF_MIME, NCX_MIME, PAGE_MAP_MIME
-        from calibre.ebooks.html import tostring as html_tostring
         with CurrentDir(output_path):
             results = oeb_book.to_opf2(page_map=True)
             for key in (OPF_MIME, NCX_MIME, PAGE_MAP_MIME):
@@ -38,16 +37,7 @@ def convert(self, oeb_book, output_path, input_plugin, opts, log):
                 dir = os.path.dirname(path)
                 if not os.path.exists(dir):
                     os.makedirs(dir)
-                raw = item.data
-                if not isinstance(raw, basestring):
-                    if hasattr(raw, 'cssText'):
-                        raw = raw.cssText
-                    else:
-                        raw = html_tostring(raw,
-                                pretty_print=opts.pretty_print)
-                if isinstance(raw, unicode):
-                    raw = raw.encode('utf-8')
                 with open(path, 'wb') as f:
-                    f.write(raw)
+                    f.write(str(item))
 
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/split.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/split.py
similarity index 51%
rename from src/calibre/ebooks/epub/split.py
rename to src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/split.py
index 8ff62a1c4b..20205e9c6d 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/split.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/split.py
@@ -4,21 +4,25 @@
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
 '''
-Split the flows in an epub file to conform to size limitations.
+Splitting of the XHTML flows. Splitting can happen on page boundaries or can be
+forces at "likely" locations to conform to size limitations. This transform
+assumes a prior call to the flatcss transform.
 '''
 
-import os, math, functools, collections, re, copy, sys
+import os, math, functools, collections, re, copy
 
 from lxml.etree import XPath as _XPath
 from lxml import etree, html
 from lxml.cssselect import CSSSelector
 
-from calibre.ebooks.metadata.opf2 import OPF
+from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import OEB_STYLES, XPNSMAP, urldefrag, \
+                rewrite_links
 from calibre.ebooks.epub import tostring, rules
-from calibre import CurrentDir
 
-XPath = functools.partial(_XPath, namespaces={'re':'http://exslt.org/regular-expressions'})
-content = functools.partial(os.path.join, 'content')
+NAMESPACES = dict(XPNSMAP)
+NAMESPACES['re'] = 'http://exslt.org/regular-expressions'
+
+XPath = functools.partial(_XPath, namespaces=NAMESPACES)
 
 SPLIT_ATTR       = 'cs'
 SPLIT_POINT_ATTR = 'csp'
@@ -27,149 +31,166 @@ class SplitError(ValueError):
 
     def __init__(self, path, root):
         size = len(tostring(root))/1024.
-        ValueError.__init__(self, _('Could not find reasonable point at which to split: %s Sub-tree size: %d KB')%
-                            (os.path.basename(path), size))
+        ValueError.__init__(self,
+            _('Could not find reasonable point at which to split: '
+                '%s Sub-tree size: %d KB')%
+                            (path, size))
+
+class Split(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, split_on_page_breaks=True, page_breaks_xpath=None,
+            max_flow_size=0):
+        self.split_on_page_breaks = split_on_page_breaks
+        self.page_breaks_xpath = page_breaks_xpath
+        self.max_flow_size = max_flow_size
+        if self.page_breaks_xpath is not None:
+            self.page_breaks_xpath = XPath(self.page_breaks_xpath)
+
+    def __call__(self, oeb, context):
+        self.oeb = oeb
+        self.log = oeb.log
+        self.map = {}
+        self.page_break_selectors = None
+        for item in self.oeb.manifest.items:
+            if etree.iselement(item.data):
+                self.split_item(item)
+
+        self.fix_links()
+
+    def split_item(self, item):
+        if self.split_on_page_breaks:
+            if self.page_breaks_xpath is None:
+                page_breaks, page_break_ids = self.find_page_breaks(item)
+            else:
+                page_breaks, page_break_ids = self.page_breaks_xpath(item.data)
+
+        splitter = FlowSplitter(item, page_breaks, page_break_ids,
+                self.max_flow_size, self.oeb)
+        if splitter.was_split:
+            self.map[item.href] = dict(splitter.anchor_map)
+
+    def find_page_breaks(self, item):
+        if self.page_break_selectors is None:
+            self.page_break_selectors = set([])
+            stylesheets = [x.data for x in self.oeb.manifest if x.media_type in
+                    OEB_STYLES]
+        page_break_selectors = set([])
+        for rule in rules(stylesheets):
+            before = getattr(rule.style.getPropertyCSSValue(
+                'page-break-before'), 'cssText', '').strip().lower()
+            after  = getattr(rule.style.getPropertyCSSValue(
+                'page-break-after'), 'cssText', '').strip().lower()
+            try:
+                if before and before != 'avoid':
+                    page_break_selectors.add((CSSSelector(rule.selectorText),
+                        True))
+            except:
+                pass
+            try:
+                if after and after != 'avoid':
+                    page_break_selectors.add((CSSSelector(rule.selectorText),
+                        False))
+            except:
+                pass
+
+        page_breaks = set([])
+        for selector, before in page_break_selectors:
+            for elem in selector(item.data):
+                elem.pb_before = before
+                page_breaks.add(elem)
+
+        for i, elem in enumerate(item.data.iter()):
+            elem.pb_order = i
+
+        page_breaks = list(page_breaks)
+        page_breaks.sort(cmp=lambda x,y : cmp(x.pb_order, y.pb_order))
+        page_break_ids, page_breaks_ = [], []
+        for i, x in enumerate(page_breaks):
+            x.set('id', x.get('id', 'calibre_pb_%d'%i))
+            id = x.get('id')
+            page_breaks_.append((XPath('//*[@id="%s"]'%id), x.pb_before))
+            page_break_ids.append(id)
+
+        return page_breaks_, page_break_ids
+
+    def fix_links(self, opf):
+        '''
+        Fix references to the split files in other content files.
+        '''
+        for item in self.oeb.manifest:
+            if etree.iselement(item.data):
+                self.current_item = item
+                rewrite_links(item.data, self.rewrite_links)
+
+    def rewrite_links(self, url):
+        href, frag = urldefrag(url)
+        href = self.current_item.abshref(href)
+        if href in self.map:
+            anchor_map = self.map[href]
+            nhref = anchor_map[frag if frag else None]
+            if frag:
+                nhref = '#'.joinn(href, frag)
+            return nhref
+        return url
 
 
 
-class Splitter(object):
+class FlowSplitter(object):
 
-    def __init__(self, path, opts, stylesheet_map, opf):
-        self.setup_cli_handler(opts.verbose)
-        self.path = path
-        self.always_remove = not opts.preserve_tag_structure or \
-                    os.stat(content(path)).st_size > 5*opts.profile.flow_size
-        self.base = (os.path.splitext(path)[0].replace('%', '%%') + '_split_%d.html')
-        self.opts = opts
-        self.orig_size = os.stat(content(path)).st_size
-        self.log_info('\tSplitting %s (%d KB)', path, self.orig_size/1024.)
-        root = html.fromstring(open(content(path)).read())
+    def __init__(self, item, page_breaks, page_break_ids, max_flow_size, oeb):
+        self.item           = item
+        self.oeb            = oeb
+        self.log            = oeb.log
+        self.page_breaks    = page_breaks
+        self.page_break_ids = page_break_ids
+        self.max_flow_size  = max_flow_size
+        self.base           = item.abshref(item.href)
 
-        self.page_breaks, self.trees = [], []
-        self.split_size = 0
+        base, ext = os.path.splitext(self.base)
+        self.base = base.replace('%', '%%')+'_split_%d'+ext
 
-        # Split on page breaks
+        self.trees = [self.item.data]
         self.splitting_on_page_breaks = True
-        if not opts.dont_split_on_page_breaks:
-            self.log_info('\tSplitting on page breaks...')
-            if self.path in stylesheet_map:
-                self.find_page_breaks(stylesheet_map[self.path], root)
-            self.split_on_page_breaks(root.getroottree())
-            trees = list(self.trees)
-        else:
-            self.trees = [root.getroottree()]
-            trees = list(self.trees)
-
-        # Split any remaining over-sized trees
+        if self.page_breaks:
+            self.split_on_page_breaks(self.item.data)
         self.splitting_on_page_breaks = False
-        if self.opts.profile.flow_size < sys.maxint:
+
+        if self.max_flow_size > 0:
             lt_found = False
-            self.log_info('\tLooking for large trees...')
-            for i, tree in enumerate(list(trees)):
+            self.log('\tLooking for large trees...')
+            trees = list(self.trees)
+            for i, tree in enumerate(list(self.trees)):
                 self.trees = []
                 size = len(tostring(tree.getroot()))
                 if size > self.opts.profile.flow_size:
                     lt_found = True
-                    try:
-                        self.split_to_size(tree)
-                    except (SplitError, RuntimeError): # Splitting fails
-                        if not self.always_remove:
-                            self.always_remove = True
-                            self.split_to_size(tree)
-                        else:
-                            raise
+                    self.split_to_size(tree)
                     trees[i:i+1] = list(self.trees)
             if not lt_found:
                 self.log_info('\tNo large trees found')
+            self.trees = trees
 
-        self.trees = trees
         self.was_split = len(self.trees) > 1
-        if self.was_split:
-            self.commit()
-            self.log_info('\t\tSplit into %d parts.', len(self.trees))
-            if self.opts.verbose:
-                for f in self.files:
-                    self.log_info('\t\t\t%s - %d KB', f, os.stat(content(f)).st_size/1024.)
-            self.fix_opf(opf)
+        self.commit()
 
-        self.trees = None
+    def split_on_page_breaks(self, orig_tree):
+        ordered_ids = []
+        for elem in orig_tree.xpath('//*[@id]'):
+            id = elem.get('id')
+            if id in self.page_break_ids:
+                ordered_ids.append(self.page_breaks[self.page_break_ids.index(id)])
 
-
-    def split_text(self, text, root, size):
-        self.log_debug('\t\t\tSplitting text of length: %d'%len(text))
-        rest = text.replace('\r', '')
-        parts = re.split('\n\n', rest)
-        self.log_debug('\t\t\t\tFound %d parts'%len(parts))
-        if max(map(len, parts)) > size:
-            raise SplitError('Cannot split as file contains a <pre> tag with a very large paragraph', root)
-        ans = []
-        buf = ''
-        for part in parts:
-            if len(buf) + len(part) < size:
-                buf += '\n\n'+part
-            else:
-                ans.append(buf)
-                buf = part
-        return ans
-
-
-    def split_to_size(self, tree):
-        self.log_debug('\t\tSplitting...')
-        root = tree.getroot()
-        # Split large <pre> tags
-        for pre in list(root.xpath('//pre')):
-            text = u''.join(pre.xpath('descendant::text()'))
-            pre.text = text
-            for child in list(pre.iterchildren()):
-                pre.remove(child)
-            if len(pre.text) > self.opts.profile.flow_size*0.5:
-                frags = self.split_text(pre.text, root, int(0.2*self.opts.profile.flow_size))
-                new_pres = []
-                for frag in frags:
-                    pre2 = copy.copy(pre)
-                    pre2.text = frag
-                    pre2.tail = u''
-                    new_pres.append(pre2)
-                new_pres[-1].tail = pre.tail
-                p = pre.getparent()
-                i = p.index(pre)
-                p[i:i+1] = new_pres
-
-        split_point, before = self.find_split_point(root)
-        if split_point is None or self.split_size > 6*self.orig_size:
-            if not self.always_remove:
-                self.log_warn(_('\t\tToo much markup. Re-splitting without '
-                                'structure preservation. This may cause '
-                                'incorrect rendering.'))
-            raise SplitError(self.path, root)
-
-        for t in self.do_split(tree, split_point, before):
-            r = t.getroot()
-            if self.is_page_empty(r):
-                continue
-            size = len(tostring(r))
-            if size <= self.opts.profile.flow_size:
-                self.trees.append(t)
-                #print tostring(t.getroot(), pretty_print=True)
-                self.log_debug('\t\t\tCommitted sub-tree #%d (%d KB)',
-                               len(self.trees), size/1024.)
-                self.split_size += size
-            else:
-                self.split_to_size(t)
-
-    def is_page_empty(self, root):
-        body = root.find('body')
-        if body is None:
-            return False
-        txt = re.sub(r'\s+', '', html.tostring(body, method='text', encoding=unicode))
-        if len(txt) > 4:
-            #if len(txt) < 100:
-            #    print 1111111, html.tostring(body, method='html', encoding=unicode)
-            return False
-        for img in root.xpath('//img'):
-            if img.get('style', '') != 'display:none':
-                return False
-        return True
+        self.trees = []
+        tree = orig_tree
+        for pattern, before in ordered_ids:
+            self.log.debug('\t\tSplitting on page-break')
+            elem = pattern(tree)
+            if elem:
+                before, after = self.do_split(tree, elem[0], before)
+                self.trees.append(before)
+                tree = after
+        self.trees.append(tree)
+        self.trees = [t for t in self.trees if not self.is_page_empty(t.getroot())]
 
     def do_split(self, tree, split_point, before):
         '''
@@ -190,7 +211,7 @@ def do_split(self, tree, split_point, before):
         split_point2 = root2.xpath(path)[0]
 
         def nix_element(elem, top=True):
-            if self.always_remove:
+            if True:
                 parent = elem.getparent()
                 index = parent.index(elem)
                 if top:
@@ -198,7 +219,6 @@ def nix_element(elem, top=True):
                 else:
                     index = parent.index(elem)
                     parent[index:index+1] = list(elem.iterchildren())
-
             else:
                 elem.text = u''
                 elem.tail = u''
@@ -241,67 +261,76 @@ def fix_split_point(sp):
 
         return tree, tree2
 
+    def is_page_empty(self, root):
+        body = root.find('body')
+        if body is None:
+            return False
+        txt = re.sub(r'\s+', '', html.tostring(body, method='text', encoding=unicode))
+        if len(txt) > 4:
+            return False
+        for img in root.xpath('//img'):
+            if img.get('style', '') != 'display:none':
+                return False
+        return True
 
-    def split_on_page_breaks(self, orig_tree):
-        ordered_ids = []
-        for elem in orig_tree.xpath('//*[@id]'):
-            id = elem.get('id')
-            if id in self.page_break_ids:
-                ordered_ids.append(self.page_breaks[self.page_break_ids.index(id)])
-
-        self.trees = []
-        tree = orig_tree
-        for pattern, before in ordered_ids:
-            self.log_info('\t\tSplitting on page-break')
-            elem = pattern(tree)
-            if elem:
-                before, after = self.do_split(tree, elem[0], before)
-                self.trees.append(before)
-                tree = after
-        self.trees.append(tree)
-        self.trees = [t for t in self.trees if not self.is_page_empty(t.getroot())]
+    def split_text(self, text, root, size):
+        self.log.debug('\t\t\tSplitting text of length: %d'%len(text))
+        rest = text.replace('\r', '')
+        parts = re.split('\n\n', rest)
+        self.log.debug('\t\t\t\tFound %d parts'%len(parts))
+        if max(map(len, parts)) > size:
+            raise SplitError('Cannot split as file contains a <pre> tag '
+                'with a very large paragraph', root)
+        ans = []
+        buf = ''
+        for part in parts:
+            if len(buf) + len(part) < size:
+                buf += '\n\n'+part
+            else:
+                ans.append(buf)
+                buf = part
+        return ans
 
 
+    def split_to_size(self, tree):
+        self.log.debug('\t\tSplitting...')
+        root = tree.getroot()
+        # Split large <pre> tags
+        for pre in list(root.xpath('//pre')):
+            text = u''.join(pre.xpath('descendant::text()'))
+            pre.text = text
+            for child in list(pre.iterchildren()):
+                pre.remove(child)
+            if len(pre.text) > self.max_flow_size*0.5:
+                frags = self.split_text(pre.text, root, int(0.2*self.max_flow_size))
+                new_pres = []
+                for frag in frags:
+                    pre2 = copy.copy(pre)
+                    pre2.text = frag
+                    pre2.tail = u''
+                    new_pres.append(pre2)
+                new_pres[-1].tail = pre.tail
+                p = pre.getparent()
+                i = p.index(pre)
+                p[i:i+1] = new_pres
 
-    def find_page_breaks(self, stylesheets, root):
-        '''
-        Find all elements that have either page-break-before or page-break-after set.
-        Populates `self.page_breaks` with id based XPath selectors (for elements that don't
-        have ids, an id is created).
-        '''
-        page_break_selectors = set([])
-        for rule in rules(stylesheets):
-            before = getattr(rule.style.getPropertyCSSValue('page-break-before'), 'cssText', '').strip().lower()
-            after  = getattr(rule.style.getPropertyCSSValue('page-break-after'), 'cssText', '').strip().lower()
-            try:
-                if before and before != 'avoid':
-                    page_break_selectors.add((CSSSelector(rule.selectorText), True))
-            except:
-                pass
-            try:
-                if after and after != 'avoid':
-                    page_break_selectors.add((CSSSelector(rule.selectorText), False))
-            except:
-                pass
-
-        page_breaks = set([])
-        for selector, before in page_break_selectors:
-            for elem in selector(root):
-                elem.pb_before = before
-                page_breaks.add(elem)
-
-        for i, elem in enumerate(root.iter()):
-            elem.pb_order = i
-
-        page_breaks = list(page_breaks)
-        page_breaks.sort(cmp=lambda x,y : cmp(x.pb_order, y.pb_order))
-        self.page_break_ids = []
-        for i, x in enumerate(page_breaks):
-            x.set('id', x.get('id', 'calibre_pb_%d'%i))
-            id = x.get('id')
-            self.page_breaks.append((XPath('//*[@id="%s"]'%id), x.pb_before))
-            self.page_break_ids.append(id)
+        split_point, before = self.find_split_point(root)
+        if split_point is None:
+            raise SplitError(self.item.href, root)
 
+        for t in self.do_split(tree, split_point, before):
+            r = t.getroot()
+            if self.is_page_empty(r):
+                continue
+            size = len(tostring(r))
+            if size <= self.max_flow_size:
+                self.trees.append(t)
+                #print tostring(t.getroot(), pretty_print=True)
+                self.log.debug('\t\t\tCommitted sub-tree #%d (%d KB)',
+                               len(self.trees), size/1024.)
+                self.split_size += size
+            else:
+                self.split_to_size(t)
 
     def find_split_point(self, root):
         '''
@@ -336,8 +365,7 @@ def pick_elem(elems):
                      '//br',
                      '//li',
                      ):
-            elems = root.xpath(path,
-                    namespaces={'re':'http://exslt.org/regular-expressions'})
+            elems = root.xpath(path, namespaces=NAMESPACES)
             elem = pick_elem(elems)
             if elem is not None:
                 try:
@@ -355,6 +383,8 @@ def commit(self):
         all anchors in the original tree. Internal links are re-directed. The
         original file is deleted and the split files are saved.
         '''
+        if not self.was_split:
+            return
         self.anchor_map = collections.defaultdict(lambda :self.base%0)
         self.files = []
 
@@ -368,134 +398,46 @@ def commit(self):
                 elem.attrib.pop(SPLIT_ATTR, None)
                 elem.attrib.pop(SPLIT_POINT_ATTR, '0')
 
-        for current, tree in zip(self.files, self.trees):
-            for a in tree.getroot().xpath('//a[@href]'):
+        spine_pos = self.item.spine_pos
+        for current, tree in zip(map(reversed, (self.files, self.trees))):
+            for a in tree.getroot().xpath('//h:a[@href]', namespaces=NAMESPACES):
                 href = a.get('href').strip()
                 if href.startswith('#'):
                     anchor = href[1:]
                     file = self.anchor_map[anchor]
                     if file != current:
                         a.set('href', file+href)
-            open(content(current), 'wb').\
-                write(tostring(tree.getroot(), pretty_print=self.opts.pretty_print))
 
-        os.remove(content(self.path))
+            new_id = self.oeb.manifest.generate(id=self.item.id)[0]
+            new_item = self.oeb.manifest.add(new_id, current,
+                    self.item.media_type, data=tree.getroot())
+            self.oeb.spine.insert(spine_pos, new_item, self.item.linear)
+
+        if self.oeb.guide:
+            for ref in self.oeb.guide:
+                href, frag = urldefrag(ref.href)
+                if href == self.item.href:
+                    nhref = self.anchor_map[frag if frag else None]
+                    if frag:
+                        nhref = '#'.join(nhref, frag)
+                    ref.href = nhref
+
+        def fix_toc_entry(toc):
+            if toc.href:
+                href, frag = urldefrag(toc.href)
+                if href == self.item.href:
+                    nhref = self.anchor_map[frag if frag else None]
+                    if frag:
+                        nhref = '#'.join(nhref, frag)
+                    toc.href = nhref
+            for x in toc:
+                fix_toc_entry(x)
 
 
-    def fix_opf(self, opf):
-        '''
-        Fix references to the split file in the OPF.
-        '''
-        items = [item for item in opf.itermanifest() if item.get('href') == 'content/'+self.path]
-        new_items = [('content/'+f, None) for f in self.files]
-        id_map = {}
-        for item in items:
-            id_map[item.get('id')] = opf.replace_manifest_item(item, new_items)
+        if self.oeb.toc:
+            fix_toc_entry(self.oeb.toc)
 
-        for id in id_map.keys():
-            opf.replace_spine_items_by_idref(id, id_map[id])
-
-        for ref in opf.iterguide():
-            href = ref.get('href', '')
-            if href.startswith('content/'+self.path):
-                href = href.split('#')
-                frag = None
-                if len(href) > 1:
-                    frag = href[1]
-                if frag not in self.anchor_map:
-                    self.log_warning('\t\tUnable to re-map OPF link', href)
-                    continue
-                new_file = self.anchor_map[frag]
-                ref.set('href', 'content/'+new_file+('' if frag is None else ('#'+frag)))
+        self.oeb.manifest.remove(self.item)
 
 
 
-def fix_content_links(html_files, changes, opts):
-    split_files = [f.path for f in changes]
-    anchor_maps = [f.anchor_map for f in changes]
-    files = list(html_files)
-    for j, f in enumerate(split_files):
-        try:
-            i = files.index(f)
-            files[i:i+1] = changes[j].files
-        except ValueError:
-            continue
-
-    for htmlfile in files:
-        changed = False
-        root = html.fromstring(open(content(htmlfile), 'rb').read())
-        for a in root.xpath('//a[@href]'):
-            href = a.get('href')
-            if not href.startswith('#'):
-                href = href.split('#')
-                anchor = href[1] if len(href) > 1 else None
-                href = href[0]
-                if href in split_files:
-                    try:
-                        newf = anchor_maps[split_files.index(href)][anchor]
-                    except:
-                        print '\t\tUnable to remap HTML link:', href, anchor
-                        continue
-                    frag = ('#'+anchor) if anchor else ''
-                    a.set('href', newf+frag)
-                    changed = True
-
-        if changed:
-            open(content(htmlfile), 'wb').write(tostring(root, pretty_print=opts.pretty_print))
-
-def fix_ncx(path, changes):
-    split_files = [f.path for f in changes]
-    anchor_maps = [f.anchor_map for f in changes]
-    tree = etree.parse(path)
-    changed = False
-    for content in tree.getroot().xpath('//x:content[@src]',
-                    namespaces={'x':"http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/ncx/"}):
-        href = content.get('src')
-        if not href.startswith('#'):
-            href = href.split('#')
-            anchor = href[1] if len(href) > 1 else None
-            href = href[0].split('/')[-1]
-            if href in split_files:
-                try:
-                    newf = anchor_maps[split_files.index(href)][anchor]
-                except:
-                    print 'Unable to remap NCX link:', href, anchor
-                frag = ('#'+anchor) if anchor else ''
-                content.set('src', 'content/'+newf+frag)
-                changed = True
-    if changed:
-        open(path, 'wb').write(etree.tostring(tree.getroot(), encoding='UTF-8', xml_declaration=True))
-
-def find_html_files(opf):
-    '''
-    Find all HTML files referenced by `opf`.
-    '''
-    html_files = []
-    for item in opf.itermanifest():
-        if 'html' in item.get('media-type', '').lower():
-            f = item.get('href').split('/')[-1]
-            f2 = f.replace('&', '%26')
-            if not os.path.exists(content(f)) and os.path.exists(content(f2)):
-                f = f2
-                item.set('href', item.get('href').replace('&', '%26'))
-            if os.path.exists(content(f)):
-                html_files.append(f)
-    return html_files
-
-
-def split(pathtoopf, opts, stylesheet_map):
-    pathtoopf = os.path.abspath(pathtoopf)
-    opf = OPF(open(pathtoopf, 'rb'), os.path.dirname(pathtoopf))
-
-    with CurrentDir(os.path.dirname(pathtoopf)):
-        html_files = find_html_files(opf)
-        changes = [Splitter(f, opts, stylesheet_map, opf) for f in html_files]
-        changes = [c for c in changes if c.was_split]
-
-        fix_content_links(html_files, changes, opts)
-        for item in opf.itermanifest():
-            if item.get('media-type', '') == 'application/x-dtbncx+xml':
-                fix_ncx(item.get('href'), changes)
-                break
-
-        open(pathtoopf, 'wb').write(opf.render())