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The ‘metadata’ section contains a description of the publication: title, author, publisher, etc. Most of these entries are identical to what librarians use for cataloguing publications. Parts of the metadata section are used by e-readers to organize ebook collections. The ‘manifest’ section lists all the resources used in the EPUB package, with the exception of subdirectories, the mimetype file, the contents of the META-INF folder, and the .opf file itself. Manually producing a manifest section can be extremely time-consuming for large EPUBs, as the list of resources used in the publication is bound to be long. Every resource has a unique ‘id’ and should be referenced by a relative path in the ‘href’ attribute and described in the ‘media-type’ attribute. The entry with the cover.png is of special interest, as its ‘properties’ attribute specifies that the image may be used by e-readers as a cover image for the publication, for example in collection overviews. Finally, the ‘spine’ section lists all the HTML or XHTML pages present in the publication; the order of this list indicates to the e-reader the linear reading order of the publication. The ‘spine’ section contains only HTML or XHTML pages, no images or other content. The ‘toc’ attribute refers to the ‘id’ attribute of the ‘toc.ncx’ file already described in the ‘manifest’ section. 64
The content As mentioned in the introduction of this section, an important part of an EPUB consists of a collection of HTML files, often connected through hyperlinks. The process of creating the pages of an EPUB is similar to that of building a website, but with the particular limitations of e-readers in mind – limited support for rich media, color, etc. (see also Chapter 4: Technologies for electronic reading Pages should be written in XHTML, a variant of HTML that was created to make HTML more ‘extensible’ and increase its interoperability with other data formats. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) may freely be used, although many e-readers will ignore at least some of the style definitions. Packaging Putting together the EPUB file is quite simple: select the META-INF and OE- BPS directories together with the mimetype file, and create a ZIP archive. This may be done by using the built-in archive utility of your computer operating system, or an external program or utility. 5 The .zip extension of the archive must then be renamed to .epub. Because some archive programs create unnecessary (hidden) files inside the archive which might make your EPUB invalid, it’s important to ‘validate’ your EPUB to see if it actually works (although in practice, most e-readers will safely ignore superfluous files and still interpret the document properly). Invalid EPUBs are files that do not conform to the EPUB specification, or have other issues such as incorrect code. Fixing validation errors will minimize (but not eliminate) the chance of e-readers refusing to read an EPUB. Validation of the EPUB can be done online using the EPUB Validator 6 or with a specialized desktop application. And your EPUB is ready! 5 More information on how to automate the EPUB zipping process can be found here: EPUB Zip/Unzip AppleScript application for Mac OS X, http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55681. 6 EPUB Validator (beta), http://validator.idpf.org. 65
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