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ePUB Brief
Sean Lee @ Weaveus. Mar 2011
ePUB

• XHTML
 for content
• CSS
 for layout and formatting
• XML
 for manifest, table of contents, metadata
ePUB

• Open Publication Structure (OPS)
  formatting of its content
• Open Packaging Format (OPF)
  XML .epub format
• Open Container Format (OCF)
  ZIP archive
Open Publication Structure


• XHTML
• CSS - OPS Style Sheet. ‘oeb-’ prefix.
• Image - PNG, JPG, GIF and SVG
• UTF-16 or UTF-8
Open Publication Structure

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/
DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml;
charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Pride and Prejudice</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css" type="text/css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    ...
  </body>
</html>
Open Packaging Format



• .opf - metadata XML
• .ncx - navigation control file for XML
Open Container Format


• wrap in a ZIP
• /metadata
• /META-INF/container.xml
• {OPS, OPF files}
.epub Archive
.epub in Reader




  Application ‘Stanza’
.epub in iBooks
References



• Wikipedia EPUB
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

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