Exporting InDesign document to epub

InDesign exports documents to ePub. It works well.
But afterwards the document needs more formatting. I have read the Adobe document entitled 'Producing ePub Documents from InDesign' but I am not able to open the file (after unzipping the archive) so that any of the existing xhtml coding is visible.
Does anyone have any further documentation regarding producing ePub files?

From InDesign 6.0 to 6.0.3, there were issues with font embedding, but they were quite easily overcome by editing the EPUB file (see fix here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/330027). With 6.0.4, the font embedding feature is broken. Not all the type faces are copied into the Fonts folder. The CSS file doesn't reference all the type faces used and the encryption.xml file doesn't reference them either. It's possible to fix the EPUB file so that the fonts are embedded, but it's a huge pain, so stick with 6.0.3 if you're serious about EPUB publishing.
As for using the PDFXML Inspector, I wasn't detailed enough in my explanation (sorry to create that confusion). When you open an XML or XHTML file with PDFXML Inspector, extra breaks are inserted in order to make the code easier to read.
So the following code...
<p class="body"><span class="generated-style">Ehene nemquunto tet, omnit untium aut aut molupta temquia saperum venis aut dit, </span><span class="italic">conem</span><span class="generated-style"> dolut am cus rehendiatur? Ducitibusam et qui culpa dolum volore provitaque sit accum rerspelit fugia ped ma </span><span class="italic">velicipsanis</span><span class="generated-style"> consequ aturibus dolum laut a dolest, cuptis es dolorro ma aliam sit optatur, eos alique se veris cus in repellabo. Aquiasp </span><span class="bold">icaborerae</span><span class="generated-style">. Nat as sum arum harchici audanis et verrore henimoluptas utecepuda ped que odignimo delit voluptatat quosa etur?</span></p>
becomes...
<p class="body">
<span class="generated-style">
Ehene nemquunto tet, omnit untium aut aut molupta temquia saperum venis aut dit,
</span>
<span class="italic">
conem
</span>
<span class="generated-style">
dolut am cus rehendiatur? Ducitibusam et qui culpa dolum volore provitaque sit accum rerspelit fugia ped ma
</span>
<span class="italic">
velicipsanis
</span>
<span class="generated-style">
consequ aturibus dolum laut a dolest, cuptis es dolorro ma aliam sit optatur, eos alique se veris cus in repellabo. Aquiasp
</span>
<span class="bold">
icaborerae
</span>
<span class="generated-style">
. Nat as sum arum harchici audanis et verrore henimoluptas utecepuda ped que odignimo delit voluptatat quosa etur?
</span>
</p>
The line breaks are rendered as spaces in the EPUB file, which is not always a problem. But it can be a problem, for example, if a bold word is followed by a period at the end of a sentence. In that case, an extra space will be added between the bold word and the period.
I just discovered that you can overcome this issue if you turn off the "Pretty Printing" option by choosing View > XML > Pretty Printing. Do this before opening an EPUB file and making edits to it.
So thanks to Jeremy, I looked into PDFXML Inspector a little deeper and now I recommend it for editing EPUB files! It's not as user-friendly and robust as a professional XML editor, but it gets the job done for free.

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