Everyone, Some of you may have already seen the announcement on the TeleRead blog, but if not, the first working draft of the OpenReader Binder specification...
... Jon, A few comments: Throughout the specification, you use short-forms for attribute names...for example, "resid" instead of "resource_id" or "ResourceID."...
Note that <element/> and <element></element> are equivalent representations of empty element (i.e. element that has no content and that may or may not be...
... Ben, thanks for your thorough reading of the Binder spec and taking the time to post your thoughts and concerns. I'll provide some brief answers to some of...
... Thanks, csssite, for taking the time to read through the spec thoroughly and provide feedback. It's good to see several people do so. The Binder section...
On Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 5:46:50 PM, Jon wrote: JN> So, XML makes a pretty strong statement here ("SHOULD"), even if not JN> required. Yes,the SHOULD should...
[oops, intended to send this to the group, not to Chris. So am resending it to openreader-format. Jon] ... So far the majority consensus of those who have...
... Thanks. I should have checked to see how XML defined the phrase "for interoperability." I'm close to relenting on this, given the excellent feedback by ...
Hello Jon I would like to ask you if there will be a sample eBook edition in the OpenReader Format, wich everybody can download from your website and use as a...
... The answer is an emphatic yes! The first OpenReader format sample I will put together will likely be "My Antonia". Since I want to demonstrate the feature...
On Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 9:05:09 PM, Jon wrote: ... JN> Thanks. I should have checked to see how XML defined the phrase "for JN> interoperability." Given...
Everyone, I'm embarrassed to say that I lost the email, the CSS style sheet, and most importantly the name of the person subscribed to this group who sent me a...
Hello Jon, thanks for the answer. I guess you will send out an e-mail as soon as your sample(s) is/are downloadable, right? I also plan to publish all of my...
... As many of you know, the IDPF, née OEBF, has recently started an effort to create a single-file encapsulation format for e-books conforming to the Open...
[Note to the OpenReader format group: I just posted the following to the new IDPF OEBPS Working Group of which I'm an invited contributor. I've been a...
I haven't posted to this list because I think its validity is in question. I don't believe that OpenReader as currently proposed is a legitimate reason to...
... Please note that Jon Noring has written a response also published at Teleread: ‘OpenReader manifesto’ ignores business realities of e-book industry ...
[A few here may be interested in the following I just posted to The eBook Community. This thread has been kept separate from the TeBC thread. Note, yesterday I...
Everyone, The OpenReader Consortium has issued the first demo OpenReader 1.0 Publication. This follows the release of the OpenReader Binder and Content...
Everyone, As part of the effort to develop a set of special OpenReader namespace elements which may be applied to any OR supported content document vocabulary,...
Hi Jon, ... This looks rather like DocBook indexing markup. Cheers, Michael -- Print XML with Prince! http://www.princexml.com...
Michael Day
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Oct 5, 2006 1:58 am
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... Hmmm, maybe, I'll have to redig into DocBook. The section I looked at with regards to DocBook indexing did not appear to embed indexing information within...
... You place <indexterm> elements through the document, then at the end place an empty <index/> element which is where the actual index will be generated. ...
Michael Day
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... Cool! That clarifies it. It also shows I was close, although the indexing terms in DocBook are part of content, while in my example, they were attribute...
Some limitations of the brief sample Jon provided and IIRC of DocBook (but lord knows, I am no DocBook expert): * Only provides for 1 index. * Definitionally...
... Thanks! From my initial study, it appears TEI is a little more powerful at representing embedded indexing information than is DocBook. In my chats with a...
... Again, interesting info. The feedback I've been getting, from here and from Jon Jermey and David Ream (who is one of the top experts in the area of XML and...
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