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This specification defines a file format and processing model for encapsulating the set of related resources that comprise an EPUB® Publication into a single-file container, the EPUB Container.
This specification defines the rules for structuring the file collection in the abstract (the "abstract container") and the rules for the representation of this abstract container within a ZIP archive (the "ZIP container"). The rules for ZIP containers build upon the ZIP technologies used by [ODF]. OCF also defines a standard method for obfuscating embedded resources, such as fonts, for those EPUB Publications that require this functionality.
This specification is one of a family of specifications that compose EPUB 3 [EPUB32], an interchange and delivery format for digital publications based on XML and Web Standards. It is meant to be read and understood in concert with the other specifications that make up EPUB 3.
Refer to [EPUB32Changes] for more information on the differences between this specification and its predecessor.
This specification was published by the EPUB 3 Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track. Please note that under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement (FSA) other conditions apply. Learn more about W3C Community and Business Groups.
If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send them to public-epub3@w3.org (subscribe, archives).
Terms with meanings specific to EPUB 3 are capitalized in this document (e.g., "Author", "Reading System"). A complete list of these terms and definitions is provided in [EPUB32].
Only the first instance of a term in a section is linked to its definition.
In addition, the following terminology is defined for use in this specification:
Codec refers to content that has intrinsic binary format qualities, such as video and audio media types which are already designed for optimum compression, or which provide optimized streaming capabilities.
The Rendition listed in the first rootfile
element in the container.xml file.
The name of any type of file within an OCF Abstract Container, whether a directory or a file within a directory.
Non-Codec refers to content types that benefit from compression due to the nature of their internal data structure, such as file formats based on character strings (for example, HTML, CSS, etc.).
The OCF Abstract Container defines a file system model for the contents of the OCF ZIP Container, as defined in OCF Abstract Container.
A software application that processes OCF ZIP Containers according to the requirements of this specification.
The ZIP-based packaging and distribution format for EPUB Publications, as defined in OCF ZIP Container.
OCF ZIP Container and EPUB Container are synonymous.
For a given directory within the OCF Abstract
Container, the string holding all directory File Name in the full path
concatenated together with a /
(U+002F
) character separating the
directory File Names.
For a given file within the OCF Abstract Container, the Path Name is the string holding all
directory File Names concatenated together with a /
character separating the
directory File Names, followed by a /
character and then the File Name of the
file.
The root directory represents the base of the OCF Abstract Container file system. This directory is virtual in nature: a EPUB Reading System might or might not generate a physical root directory for the contents of the OCF Abstract Container if the contents are unzipped.
As well as sections marked as non-normative, all authoring guidelines, diagrams, examples, and notes in this specification are non-normative. Everything else in this specification is normative.
The key words MAY, MUST, MUST NOT, OPTIONAL, REQUIRED, SHOULD, and SHOULD NOT are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
An OCF Abstract Container MUST meet the conformance constraints defined in OCF Abstract Container.
An OCF ZIP Container MUST meet the conformance constraints defined in OCF ZIP Container.
An EPUB Reading System MUST meet all of the following criteria:
It MUST process the OCF ZIP Container in conformance with all Reading System conformance constraints expressed in OCF ZIP Container.
If it has a Viewport, it MUST support deobfuscation of resources as defined in Resource Obfuscation.
This section is non-normative.
The OCF Abstract Container file system model uses a single common Root Directory for all of the contents. All Local Resources for the EPUB Publication are located within the directory tree headed by the Root Directory, but no specific file system structure for them is mandated by this specification.
The file system model also includes a mandatory directory named META-INF
that is a
direct child of the Root Directory and is used to store the following special files:
container.xml
[required]
Identifies the Package Documents that define each Rendition of the EPUB Publication.
signatures.xml
[optional]
Contains digital signatures for various assets.
encryption.xml
[optional]
Contains information about the encryption of Publication Resources. This file is mandatory when obfuscation is used.
metadata.xml
[optional]
Used to store metadata about the OCF ZIP Container.
rights.xml
[optional]
Used to store information about digital rights.
manifest.xml
[optional]
A manifest of container contents as allowed by Open Document Format [ODF].
Conformance requirements for the various files in the META-INF
directory are defined in
META-INF
Directory.
The virtual file system for the OCF Abstract Container MUST have a single common Root Directory for all of the contents of the container.
The OCF Abstract Container MUST include a directory named META-INF
that is a direct
child of the container's Root Directory. Requirements for the contents of this directory are
described in META-INF
Directory.
The file name mimetype
in the Root Directory is reserved for use by OCF ZIP Containers, as explained in OCF ZIP Container.
All other files within the OCF Abstract Container MAY be in any location descendant from the Root
Directory, provided they are not within the META-INF
directory.
Files within the OCF Abstract Container MUST reference each other via relative IRI references ([RFC3987] and [RFC3986]).
For relative IRI references, the Base IRI [RFC3986] is determined by the relevant language specifications for the given file formats. For example, CSS defines how relative IRI references work in the context of CSS style sheets and property declarations [CSSSnapshot].
Unlike most language specifications, the Base IRIs for all files within the META-INF
directory use the Root Directory of the OCF Abstract Container as the default Base IRI.
For example, if META-INF/container.xml
has the following content:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<container version="1.0" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container">
<rootfiles>
<rootfile full-path="EPUB/Great_Expectations.opf"
media-type="application/oebps-package+xml" />
</rootfiles>
</container>
then the path EPUB/Great_Expectations.opf
is relative to the root directory for the OCF
Abstract Container and not relative to the META-INF
directory.
All relative IRI references MUST resolve to resources within the OCF Abstract Container (i.e., at or below the Root Directory).
The File Name restrictions described in this section are designed to allow Path Names and File Names to be used without modification on most commonly used operating systems. This specification does not specify how an OCF Processor that is unable to represent OCF File and Path Names would compensate for this incompatibility.
In the context of an OCF Abstract Container, File and Path Names are case sensitive and MUST meet all of the following criteria:
File Names MUST be UTF-8 [Unicode] encoded.
The Path Name for any directory or file within the OCF Abstract Container MUST NOT exceed 65535 bytes.
File Names MUST NOT use the following [Unicode] characters, as these characters might not be supported consistently across commonly-used operating systems:
SOLIDUS: /
(U+002F
)
QUOTATION MARK: "
(U+0022
)
ASTERISK: *
(U+002A
)
FULL STOP as the last character: .
(U+002E
)
COLON: :
(U+003A
)
LESS-THAN SIGN: <
(U+003C
)
GREATER-THAN SIGN: >
(U+003E
)
QUESTION MARK: ?
(U+003F
)
REVERSE SOLIDUS: \
(U+005C
)
VERTICAL LINE: \
(U+007C
)
DEL (U+007F
)
C0 range (U+0000 … U+001F
)
C1 range (U+0080 … U+009F
)
Private Use Area (U+E000 … U+F8FF
)
Non characters in Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FDDO … U+FDEF
)
Specials (U+FFF0 … U+FFFF
)
Tags and Variation Selectors Supplement (U+E0000 … U+E0FFF
)
Supplementary Private Use Area-A (U+F0000 … U+FFFFF
)
Supplementary Private Use Area-B (U+100000 … U+10FFFF
)
All File Names within the same directory MUST be unique following case normalization as described in section 3.13 of [Unicode].
All File Names within the same directory SHOULD be unique following NFC or NFD normalization [TR15].
Some commercial ZIP tools do not support the full Unicode range and might support only the [US-ASCII] range for File Names. Authors who want to use ZIP tools that have these restrictions might find it is best to restrict their File Names to the [US-ASCII] range. If the names of files cannot be preserved during the unzipping process, it will be necessary to compensate for any name translation which took place when the files are referenced by URI from within the content.
META-INF
DirectoryAll OCF Abstract Containers MUST include a directory called META-INF
in their
Root Directory.
This directory contains the files specified in META-INF
Reserved Files. Files other than the ones listed in that section MAY be included in the
META-INF
directory; OCF Processors MUST NOT fail when
encountering such files.
container.xml
)The REQUIRED container.xml
file in the META-INF
directory
identifies the EPUB Packages in the OCF Abstract Container.
The contents of this file MUST be valid to the schema in Schema for container.xml
after removing all elements and attributes
from other namespaces (including all attributes and contents of such elements).
Each rootfile
element MUST identify the location
of a Package Document representing one Rendition of the EPUB
Publication. Each rendition MUST conform to the same version of EPUB as its
container.
An OCF Processor MUST consider the first
rootfile
element within the rootfiles
element to represent the
Default Rendition for the contained EPUB
Publication. Reading Systems are REQUIRED to present the Default Rendition, but MAY
present other Renditions in the container.
Although the EPUB Container provides the ability to include more than one rendition of the content, Reading System support for multiple renditions remains largely unrealized, outside specialized environments where the purpose and meaning of the renditions is established by the involved parties.
The OPTIONAL links
element identifies resources
necessary for the processing of the OCF ZIP Container. Each of its child link
elements MUST include an href
attribute whose value identifies the location of a resource. Each link
element
also MUST include a rel
attribute whose value identifies the relationship of
the resource, and MAY include a media-type
attribute whose value MUST be a
media type [RFC2046] that specifies the type and format of the resource referenced by the
link
.
The links
element is used to point to rendition mapping documents
for multiple-rendition
EPUBs.
The value of the rootfile
element full-path
attribute and the
link
element href
attribute MUST contain a path component [RFC3986] which MUST
take the form of a path-rootless
[RFC3986] only. The path components are relative to the Root Directory.
OCF Processors MUST ignore foreign elements and attributes within a
container.xml
file.
encryption.xml
)The OPTIONAL encryption.xml
file in the META-INF
directory holds
all encryption information on the contents of the container. If any resource within the
container is encrypted, encryption.xml
MUST be present to indicate that the
resource is encrypted and provide information on how it is encrypted.
This file is an XML document whose root element is encryption
. The encryption
element contains child elements of type
EncryptedKey
and EncryptedData
as defined by
[XMLENC-CORE1]. An EncryptedKey
element
describes each encryption key used in the container, while an EncryptedData
element describes each
encrypted file. Each EncryptedData
element refers to an
EncryptedKey
element, as described in XML Encryption.
The contents of the encryption.xml
file MUST be valid to the schema in Schema for encryption.xml
.
OCF encrypts individual files independently, trading off some security for improved performance, allowing the container contents to be incrementally decrypted. Encryption in this way exposes the directory structure and file naming of the whole package.
OCF uses XML Encryption [XMLENC-CORE1] to provide a framework for encryption, allowing a
variety of algorithms to be used. XML Encryption specifies a process for encrypting
arbitrary data and representing the result in XML. Even though an OCF Abstract
Container might contain non-XML data, XML Encryption can be used to encrypt all data
in an OCF Abstract Container. OCF encryption supports only the encryption of entire files
within the container, not parts of files. The encryption.xml
file, if present,
MUST NOT be encrypted.
Encrypted data replaces unencrypted data in an OCF Abstract Container. For example, if an
image named photo.jpeg
is encrypted, the contents of the
photo.jpeg
resource SHOULD be replaced by its encrypted contents. Within
the ZIP directory, encrypted files SHOULD be stored rather than Deflate-compressed.
Note that some situations require obfuscating the storage of
embedded resources referenced by a Rendition to
tie them to the "parent" EPUB Publication and make them more difficult to extract for
unrestricted use (e.g., fonts). Although obfuscation is not encryption, the
encryption.xml
file is used in conjunction with the resource obfuscation algorithm to identify
resources that need to be de-obfuscated before they can be used.
The following files MUST NOT be encrypted, regardless of whether default or specific encryption is requested:
mimetype
META-INF/container.xml
META-INF/encryption.xml
META-INF/manifest.xml
META-INF/metadata.xml
META-INF/rights.xml
META-INF/signatures.xml
Package Document
Signed resources MAY subsequently be encrypted using the Decryption Transform for XML Signature [XMLENC-DECRYPT]. This feature enables an application such as an OCF agent to distinguish data that was encrypted before signing from data that was encrypted after signing. Only data that was encrypted after signing MUST be decrypted before computing the digest used to validate the signature.
When stored in a ZIP container, streams of data with Non-Codec content types SHOULD be compressed before they are encrypted, and Deflate compression MUST be used. This practice ensures that file entries stored in the ZIP container have a smaller size.
Streams of data with Codec content types SHOULD NOT be compressed before they are encrypted. In such cases, additional compression would introduce unnecessary processing overhead at production time (especially with large resource files), and would impact audio/video playback performance at consumption time. In some cases, the combination of compression with some encryption schemes might even compromise the ability of Reading Systems to handle partial content requests (e.g. HTTP byte ranges), due to the technical impossibility to determine the length of the full resource ahead of media playback (e.g. HTTP Content-Length header).
Streams of data that are compressed before they are encrypted SHOULD provide additional
EncryptionProperties
metadata to specify the size of the initial
resource (i.e., before compression and encryption), as per the Compression
XML element defined below. Streams of data that are not compressed before they are
encrypted MAY provide the additional EncryptionProperties
metadata to
specify the size of the initial resource (i.e., before encryption).
Compression
http://www.idpf.org/2016/encryption#compression
OPTIONAL child of EncryptionProperty
.
[required]
Identifies the compression method used.
Value is either "0
" (no compression) or "8
"
(Deflate algorithm).
[required]
Represents the size of the initial resource (number of bytes).
Value is a positive integer.
Empty
manifest.xml
)The OPTIONAL manifest.xml
file in the META-INF
directory provides a
manifest of files in the Container.
The OCF specification does not mandate a format for the manifest.
Note that the manifest
element contained within a Package Document
specifies the one and only manifest used for processing a given Rendition. Ancillary
manifest information contained in the ZIP archive or in the OPTIONAL
manifest.xml
file MUST NOT be used for processing the Rendition.
metadata.xml
)The OPTIONAL META-INF/metadata.xml
file in the META-INF
directory,
if present, MUST be used for container-level metadata.
If the metadata.xml
file is present, its contents SHOULD be only
namespace-qualified elements [XML-NAMES]. The file SHOULD contain the root element
metadata
in the namespace http://www.idpf.org/2013/metadata
,
but other root elements are allowed for backwards compatibility. Reading Systems SHOULD
ignore metadata.xml
files with unrecognized root elements.
This version of the OCF specification does not define metadata for use in the
metadata.xml
file. Container-level metadata MAY be defined in future
versions of this specification and in EPUB extension specifications.
rights.xml
)The OPTIONAL rights.xml
file in the META-INF
directory is reserved
for digital rights management (DRM) information for trusted exchange of EPUB Publications
among rights holders, intermediaries, and users.
This version of the OCF specification does not require a specific format for DRM information,
but a future version might. The contents of the rights.xml
SHOULD be only
namespace-qualified elements [XML-NAMES] to avoid collision with a future format.
When the rights.xml
file is not present, no part of the container is rights
governed at the container level. Rights expressions might exist within the contained
Renditions.
If the rights.xml
file is not present, no part of the OCF Abstract Container is
rights governed.
signatures.xml
)Adding a digital signature is not a guarantee that an EPUB cannot be tampered with, since Reading Systems are not required to check signatures.
The OPTIONAL signatures.xml
file in the META-INF
directory holds
digital signatures for the container and its contents. The contents of this file MUST be
valid to the schema in Schema for
signatures.xml
.
The root element of the signatures.xml
file is the signatures
element. This element contains child elements of type Signature
, as defined by
[XMLDSIG-CORE1]. Signatures can be applied to an EPUB Publication as a whole or to its
parts, and can specify the signing of any kind of data (i.e., not just XML).
When the signatures.xml
file is not present, no part of the container is
digitally signed at the container level. Digital signing might exist within the EPUB
Publication.
When a data signature is created for the container, the signature SHOULD
be added as the last child Signature
element of the signatures
element.
Each Signature
in the signatures.xml
file identifies by IRI the
data to which the signature applies, using the [XMLDSIG-CORE1] Manifest
element and its Reference
sub-elements. Individual contained files might be
signed separately or together. Separately signing each file creates a digest value for
the resource that can be validated independently. This approach might make a Signature
element larger. If files are signed together, the set of signed files can be listed in a
single XML Signature Manifest
element and referenced by one or more
Signature
elements.
Any or all files in the container can be signed in their entirety with
the exception of the signatures.xml
file since that file will contain the
computed signature information. Whether and how the signatures.xml
file is
signed depends on the objective of the signer.
If the signer wants to allow signatures to be added or removed from the container without
invalidating the signer’s signature, the signatures.xml
file SHOULD NOT be
signed.
If the signer wants any addition or removal of a signature to invalidate the signer’s
signature, the Enveloped Signature transform defined in Section 6.6.4 of [XMLDSIG-CORE1] can be used to sign the entire preexisting
signature file excluding the Signature
being created. This transform would sign
all previous signatures, and it would become invalid if a subsequent signature was added to
the package.
If the signer wants the removal of an existing signature to invalidate the signer’s signature, but also wants to allow the addition of signatures, an XPath transform could be used to sign just the existing signatures. The details of such a transform are outside the scope of this specification, however.
The [XMLDSIG-CORE1] specification does not associate any semantics with a signature; an
agent might include semantic information, for example, by adding information to the
Signature element that describes the signature. The [XMLDSIG-CORE1] specification
describes how additional information can be added to a signature, such as by use the
SignatureProperties
element.
This section is non-normative.
An OCF ZIP Container is a physical single-file manifestation of an OCF Abstract Container. The Container is used:
to exchange in-progress EPUB Publication between different individuals and/or different organizations;
to provide EPUB Publications from a publisher or conversion house to the distribution or sales channel; and
to deliver EPUB Publications to EPUB Reading Systems or users.
An OCF ZIP Container uses the ZIP format as specified by [ZIP], but with the following constraints and clarifications:
The contents of the OCF ZIP Container MUST be a conforming OCF Abstract Container.
OCF ZIP Containers MUST NOT use the features in the ZIP application note [ZIP] that allow ZIP files to be spanned across multiple storage media, or split into multiple files. OCF Processors MUST treat any OCF files that specify that the ZIP file is split across multiple storage media as being in error.
OCF ZIP Containers MUST include only stored (uncompressed) and Deflate-compressed ZIP entries within the ZIP archive. OCF Processors MUST treat any OCF Containers that use compression techniques other than Deflate as being in error.
OCF ZIP Containers MAY use the ZIP64 extensions defined as "Version 1" in section V, subsection G of the application note [ZIP] and SHOULD use only those extensions when the content requires them. OCF Processors MUST support the ZIP64 extensions defined as "Version 1".
OCF ZIP Containers MUST NOT use the encryption features defined by the
ZIP format; instead, encryption MUST be done using the features described in Encryption File
(encryption.xml
). OCF Processors MUST treat OCF ZIP
Containers that use ZIP encryption features as being in error.
It is not a requirement that OCF Processors preserve information from an OCF ZIP Container through load and save operations that are not defined within the OCF Abstract Container; in particular, an OCF Processor does not have to preserve CRC values, comment fields or fields that hold file system information corresponding to a particular operating system (e.g., External file attributes and Extra field).
OCF ZIP Containers MUST encode File System Names using UTF-8 [Unicode].
The following constraints apply to particular fields in the OCF ZIP Container archive:
In the local file header table, OCF ZIP Containers MUST set the
version needed to extract
fields to the values
10
, 20
or 45
in order to match the maximum
version level needed by the given file (e.g., 20
if Deflate is needed,
45
if ZIP64 is needed). OCF Processors MUST treat any other values as being
in error.
In the local file header table, OCF ZIP Containers MUST set the
compression
method field to the values 0
or
8
. OCF Processors MUST treat any other values as being in error.
OCF Processors MUST treat OCF ZIP Containers with an Archive
decryption header
or an Archive extra data record
as being in
error.
The first file in the OCF ZIP Container MUST be the mimetype
file,
which meets the following requirements:
mimetype
file MUST be the MIME media type [RFC2046] string
application/epub+zip
encoded in US-ASCII [US-ASCII].mimetype
file MUST NOT contain any leading or trailing padding or white space.mimetype
file MUST NOT begin with the Unicode byte order mark U+FEFF.mimetype
file MUST NOT be compressed or encrypted,
and there MUST NOT be an extra field in its ZIP header.Refer to Appendix C, The application/epub+zip
Media
Type for further information about the application/epub+zip
media
type.
This section is non-normative.
Since an OCF ZIP Container is fundamentally a ZIP file, commonly available ZIP tools can be used to extract any unencrypted content stream from the package. Moreover, the nature of ZIP files means that their contents might appear like any other native container on some systems (e.g., a folder).
While this simplicity of ZIP files is quite useful, it also poses a problem when ease of extraction of resources is not a desired side-effect of not encrypting them. An Author who wishes to include a third-party font, for example, typically does not want that font extracted and re-used by others. More critically, many commercial fonts allow embedding, but embedding a font implies making it an integral part of the EPUB Publication, not just providing the original font file along with the content.
Since integrated ZIP support is so ubiquitous in modern operating systems, simply placing a font in the ZIP archive is insufficient to signify that it is not intended to be reused in other contexts. This uncertainty can undermine the otherwise very useful font embedding capability of EPUB Publications.
In order to discourage reuse of the font, some font vendors might only allow use of their fonts in EPUB Publications if those fonts are bound in some way to the EPUB Publication. That is, if the font file cannot be installed directly for use on an operating system with the built-in tools of that computing device, and it cannot be directly used by other EPUB Publications.
It is beyond the scope of this specification to provide a digital rights management or enforcement system for such resources. This section instead defines a method of obfuscation that will require additional work on the part of the final OCF recipient to gain general access to any obfuscated resources.
Note that no claim is made in this specification that this constitutes encryption, nor does it guarantee that the resource will be secure from copyright infringement. It is hoped, however, that this algorithm will meet the requirements of most vendors who require some assurance that their resources cannot simply be extracted by unzipping the Container.
In the case of fonts, the primary use case for obfuscation, the defined mechanism will simply provide a stumbling block for those who are unaware of the license details. It will not prevent a determined user from gaining full access to the font. Given an OCF Container, it is possible to apply the algorithms defined to extract the raw font file. Whether this method of obfuscation satisfies the requirements of individual font licenses remains a question for the licensor and licensee.
The key used in the obfuscation algorithm is derived from the Unique Identifier of the Default Rendition.
All white space characters, as defined in section 2.3 of the XML 1.0
specification [XML], MUST be removed from this identifier — specifically, the Unicode
code points U+0020
, U+0009
, U+000D
and
U+000A
.
A SHA-1 digest of the UTF-8 representation of the resulting string SHOULD be generated as specified by the Secure Hash Standard [FIPS-180-4]. This digest is then directly used as the key for the algorithm.
The algorithm employed to obfuscate resource consists of modifying the first 1040 bytes (~1KB) of the file. In the unlikely event that the file is less than 1040 bytes, then the entire file will be modified.
To obfuscate the original data, the result of performing a logical exclusive or (XOR) on the first byte of the raw file and the first byte of the obfuscation key is stored as the first byte of the embedded resource.
This process is repeated with the next byte of source and key, and continues until all bytes in the key have been used. At this point, the process continues starting with the first byte of the key and 21st byte of the source. Once 1040 bytes have been encoded in this way (or the end of the source is reached), any remaining data in the source is directly copied to the destination.
Obfuscation of resources MUST occur before they are compressed and added to the OCF Container. Note
that as obfuscation is not encryption, this requirement is not a violation of the one in Encryption File (encryption.xml
)
to compress resources before encrypting them.
To get the original font data back, the process is simply reversed: the source file becomes the obfuscated data and the destination file will contain the raw data.
The obfuscation of fonts was allowed prior to EPUB 3.0.1, but the order of obfuscation and compression was not specified. As a result, invalid fonts might be encountered after decompression and de-obfuscation. In such instances, de-obfuscating the data before inflating it might return a valid font. This specification does not require support for this method of retrieval, as it is not compliant with this version of this specification, but it needs to be considered when supporting EPUB 3 content generally.
Although not technically encrypted data, all obfuscated resources MUST have an entry in the encryption.xml
file accompanying the EPUB Publication (see Encryption File
(encryption.xml
)).
An EncryptedData
element MUST be included for each obfuscated resource. Each
EncryptedData
element MUST include a child EncryptionMethod
element
whose Algorithm
attribute is set to the value
http://www.idpf.org/2008/embedding
. The presence of this attribute signals the use
of the algorithm described in this specification. The path to the obfuscated resource MUST be listed
in the CipherReference
child of the CipherData
element.
To prevent trivial copying of the embedded resource to other EPUB Publications, the obfuscation key MUST NOT be provided in the encryption.xml
file.
container.xml
The schema for container.xml
files is available at
https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/tree/master/src/main/resources/com/adobe/epubcheck/schema/30/ocf-container-30.nvdl
.
Validation using this schema requires a processor that supports [RelaxNG-Schema] and [XMLSCHEMA-2].
encryption.xml
The schema for encryption.xml
files is included in [XMLSEC-RNGSCHEMA-20130411].
signatures.xml
The schema for signatures.xml
files is included in [XMLSEC-RNGSCHEMA-20130411].
This section is non-normative.
The following example demonstrates the use of the OCF format to contain a signed and encrypted EPUB Publication within an OCF ZIP Container.
application/epub+zip
Media TypeThis section is non-normative.
This appendix registers the media type application/epub+zip
for the EPUB Open Container
Format (OCF).
An OCF ZIP Container, or EPUB Container, file is a container technology based on the [ZIP] archive format. It is used to encapsulate the Renditions of EPUB Publications. OCF and its related standards are maintained and defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
application
epub+zip
None.
None.
OCF ZIP Container files are binary files encoded in the
application/zip
media type.
All processors that read OCF ZIP Container files should rigorously check the size and validity of data retrieved.
In addition, because of the various content types that can be embedded in OCF ZIP Container
files, application/epub+zip
may describe content that poses security implications
beyond those noted here. However, only in cases where the processor recognizes and processes the
additional content, or where further processing of that content is dispatched to other
processors, would security issues potentially arise. In such cases, matters of security would
fall outside the domain of this registration document.
Security considerations that apply to application/zip
also apply to OCF ZIP
Container files.
None.
This media type registration is for the EPUB Open Container Format (OCF), as described by the
EPUB Open Container Format (OCF) 3.2 specification located at https://w3c.github.io/publ-epub-revision/epub32/spec/epub-ocf.html
.
The EPUB OCF 3.2 specification supersedes both RFC
4839 and the Open Container Format 2.0.1 specification, which is located at https://www.idpf.org/doc_library/epub/OCF_2.0.1_draft.doc
, and which
also uses the application/epub+zip
media type.
This media type is in wide use for the distribution of ebooks in the EPUB format. The following list of applications is not exhaustive.
0: PK 0x03 0x04
, 30: mimetype
, 38:
application/epub+zip
OCF ZIP Container files are most often identified with the extension
.epub
.
ZIP
A registry of linking schemes is maintained at https://www.idpf.org/epub/linking/
. Some of these schemes
define custom fragment identifiers that resolve to application/epub+zip
and
application/oebps-package+xml
documents.
public-epub3@w3.org
COMMON
The published specification is a work product of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s EPUB 3 Community Group. The W3C has change control over this specification.
This section is non-normative.
EPUB 3 is developed by the W3C's EPUB 3 Community Group in coordination with the Publishing Business Group.
The EPUB 3.2 revision was led by:
In addition to the editors, this version of EPUB would not have been possible without significant contributions from:
Special thanks go to the former members of the International Digital Publishing Forum, particularly Markus Gylling and Bill McCoy, without whom EPUB would not have become a reality.
This version is outdated!For the latest version, please refer to https://www.w3.org/TR/epub/ and https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-rs/.