Root element
This element contains an arbitrary stylesheet that is intepreted by a some processing programs, e.g. text/css stylesheets can be used by XSLT stylesheets to generate better looking html
Generic information about the book
Generic information about the original book (for translations)
Information about this particular (xml) document
Author(s) of this particular document
Any software used in preparation of this document, in free format
Date this document was created, same guidelines as in the <title-info> section apply
Source URL if this document is a conversion of some other (online) document
Author of the original (online) document, if this is a conversion
this is a unique identifier for a document. this must not change
Document version, in free format, should be incremented if the document is changed and re-released to the public
Short description for all changes made to this document, like "Added missing chapter 6", in free form.
Information about some paper/outher published document, that was used as a source of this xml document
Original (paper) book name
Original (paper) book publisher
City where the original (paper) book was published
Year of the original (paper) publication
Any other information about the book/document that didnt fit in the above groups
Main content of the book, multiple bodies are used for additional information, like footnotes, that do not appear in the main book flow. The first body is presented to the reader by default, and content in the other bodies should be accessible by hyperlinks. Name attribute should describe the meaning of this body, this is optional for the main body.
Image to be displayed at the top of this section
A fancy title for the entire book, should be used if the simple text version in <description> is not adequate, e.g. the book title has multiple paragraphs and/or character styles
Epigraph(s) for the entire book, if any
Any binary data that is required for the presentation of this book in base64 format. Currently only images are used.
Information about a single author
A human readable date, maybe not exact, with an optional computer readable variant
A title, used in sections, poems and body elements
An empty element with an image name as an attribute
A basic paragraph, may include simple formatting inside
A citation with an optional citation author at the end
A poem
Poem title
Poem epigraph(s), if any
Each poem should have at least one stanza. Stanzas are usually separated with empty lines by user agents.
An individual line in a stanza
Date this poem was written.
An epigraph
A cut-down version of <section> used in annotations
A basic block of a book, can contain more child sections or textual content
Section's title
Epigraph(s) for this section
Image to be displayed at the top of this section
Annotation for this section, if any
Child sections
Markup
Markup
Generic hyperlinks. Cannot be nested. Footnotes should be implemented by links referring to additional bodies in the same document
Markup
Book sequences
Basic html-like tables
Align for table cells
Align for table cells
Book (as a book opposite a document) description
Genre of this book, with the optional match percentage
Author(s) of this book
Book title
Annotation for this book
Any keywords for this book, intended for use in search engines
Date this book was written, can be not exact, e.g. 1863-1867. If an optional attribute is present, then it should contain some computer-readable date from the interval for use by search and indexingengines
Any coverpage items, currently only images
Book's language
Book's source language if this is a translation
Translators if this is a translation
Any sequences this book might be part of
In-document instruction for generating output free and payed documents
Modes for document sharing (free|paid for now)
List of instructions to process sections (allow|deny|require)
Pointer to cpecific document section, explaining how to deal with it
Selector for output documents. Defines, which rule to apply to any specific output documents