| Title |
Validating ePub files |
| Detailed description | The BnF is currently experimenting with dissemination in the ePub to support eBook readers (enabling reflow) They decided to stick to a 2.0 specification for the format due to wide support for the format. |
| Issue champion | Thomas |
| Other interested parties |
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| Possible Solution approaches | There are a couple of ePub validators: ePubCheck - http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck  as used by http://validator.idpf.org/ the official site flightcrew - http://code.google.com/p/flightcrew/ (at the time of checking was NOT a better checker) |
| Context | The BnF is currently experimenting with dissemination in the ePub to support eBook readers (enabling reflow) They decided to stick to a 2.0 specification for the format due to wide support for the format. |
| Lessons Learned | There are a number of exemplar files available at: [http://code.google.com/p/epub-samples/ _]These are all version 3.0 ePubs so the validating version 2.0 ePubs is a bit of a problem Version 2.0 samples are openly available from the BnF at: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ebooks?lang=EN_ ] Trying to parse one of these ePub with ePubCheck resulted in the following error: ERROR: bnf_v2.epub/mimetype: Mimetype file should contain only the string "application/epub+zip". We think this is incorrect as the mimetype file was present and not compressed, on OS X the epub can be remade using zip as follows: zip -X0 book.epub mimetype; zip -Xur9D book.epub META-INF OEBPS -x *.DS_Store We submitted this as an issue to ePubCheck http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/issues/detail?id=180 |
| Datasets | http://gallica.bnf.fr/ebooks?lang=EN (Version 2.0 ePubs)_ http://code.google.com/p/epub-samples/ Version 3.0 ePubs)_ |
| Solutions | here |
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comments.show.hideMay 22, 2012
Paul Wheatley
I believe the SCAPE Project is looking to do some work in the ePub domain, although I think mainly focused on DRM issues around published ebook formats. Per would be probably be a good person to check with.