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- Complete EPUB
specifications: Read the specs available from the IDFP site, including the Open Publication Structure (OPS), Open Packaging Format (OPF), and OEBPS Container Format (OCF).
- XHTML 1.1 and DAISY: For more information on EPUB content formats, consult the XHTML 1.1 specification (currently a W3C Working Draft) and the DAISY Specification for the Digital Talking Book (DTBook).
- Add automatic EPUB validation to your XML editor with the various schemas for EPUB file formats:
- Dublin
Core Metadata: For more on metadata terms available in Dublin Core, consult the DCMI Terms document and usage guide.
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Get products and technologies
- EpubCheck: Adobe EpubCheck is an invaluable tool for EPUB creation. Download and run it as a stand-alone program, a Web application, or as a library (requires Java version 1.5 or later).
- DocBook XSL: Download the latest version of the stylesheets for processing DocBook into EPUB. The DocBook XSL package also includes a Ruby script for processing into a complete EPUB archive, similar to the Python script demonstrated in this tutorial.
- lxml: If you don't have it installed currently, lxml
is the most full-featured XML library available for Python. For more information about
lxml, see the author's article High-performance XML
parsing in Python with lxml (Liza Daly, developerWorks, October 2008).
- Adobe Digital Editions and Bookworm: For EPUB testing, the e-readers that most closely follow the specification are ADE, a cross-platform desktop application, and Bookwork, the author's Web-based e-reader, which uses the browser for EPUB rendering.
- IBM
trial software for product evaluation: Build your next project with trial software available for download directly from developerWorks, including application development tools and middleware products from DB2®, Lotus®, Rational®, Tivoli®, and WebSphere®.
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