Hi Don, Excuse me, What? Am 25.02.2011 um 07:01 schrieb don kretz:
At DP, we haven't even identified enough HTML structure to provide a standard encoding for the most basic structural elements of a book - i.e. Chapters. Please define what you consider a "Chapter" is.
Nor a way to embed illustrations in the HTML other than as (non-portable) url links. What do you mean by non-portable?? You do parse the HTML during conversion. Do you not? And you can convert the information in the image tag? Strange, very strange.
It seems to me that XHTML is especially badly suited to encoding books.
I can't imagine how anyone builds an ebook without identifying and acquiring chapters and illustrations. I can not follow you properly. In a printed book a chapter is identifiable without any structural elements in the sense of mark-up! Formatting, yes.
For the fun of it. A Chapter is marked by a paragraph/line/or beginning line of a paragraph that is formatted, normally in a consistent manner throughout a book, in a certain way. Identifying it is not that hard, marking it up is just as easy. Processing it is just as easy as you parse and identify the markup. So what is the problem. The semantics? That is how a tool interprets the mark-up! regards Keith.