This is an early access version, made available for early testing and evaluation.
The Z39.86-2010 Book Profile is intended to serve as an XML republishing format for print books.
This profile can be used for markup of a wide variety of print books. It is suitable both for those with simple structure, such as novels or children's books, and for very complex books with specialized structures, such as student textbooks and technical books.
Among its many features, the book profile includes markup definitions to handle such structures as:
This profile is maintained by the ANSI/NISO Z39.86 advisory committee under the auspices of NISO.
The canonical identity URI of this version of this
profile is http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2010/auth/profiles/book/0.4/.
This profile is compliant with the Z3986-2010 Part A Specification.
The normative schema of this profile is z3986a-book.rng (version 0.4).
The normative schema includes a number of modules and/or subschemas, which are listed in Appendix 1.
The latest version of the normative schema is available at the canonical URI http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2010/schema/z3986a-book.rng.
A listing of all public versions of this profile is available.
This profile supports the following optional features:
The default RDF vocabulary for this profile is the Z39.86 Print Republishing Base Vocabulary.
Schema documentation is available online, and is also included in the downloadable archives.
The following informative schemata are available:
These schemas are variants of the normative RelaxNG schema that have one or several optional features removed.
They are provided for convenience during the authoring stage.
An instance document valid to a feature-reduced schema will also be valid to the normative schema.
A default CSS stylesheet is available for use with CSS-aware XML Editing applications.
Refer to http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/ for instructions on how to associate a CSS stylesheet with a document instance.
zip format .
tar gzip format .
This section will contain references to transformation, validation etc software, once provisioning schemes are in place.
Note: the canonical base URI of these modules is http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2010/schema/mod/ , where the modules are available in their latest version.
The below list represents the modules at the time of version 0.4 of this profile.