EpubCheck 4.0.0-alpha10

Pre-release of v4.0 that brings support for EPUB 3.0.1 and initial support for the EDUPUB profile.

Changes related to EPUB 3.0.1

• Package files (OPF)
  • new collection element
  • multiple dc:type elements are now allowed
  • multiple dc:source elements has now allowed
  • allow "record" as value of link rel attribute (requires media-type set)
  • new belongs-to-collection and collection-type metadata properties
  • new media:playback-active-class metadata property
  • new source-of metadata property
  • new rendition:* metadata properties
  • new reserved prefix schema for schema.org vocabularies
  • improved prefix declaration parsing
• XHTML Content Documents
  • RDFa and Microdata attributes are now allowed and checked for correctness
  • improved prefix declaration parsing
  • improved checking of epub:type attribute values
  • allows custom (namespaced) attributes on any element
  • new triggers ev:defaultAction, ev:phase and ev:propagate
  • new attribute aria-describedat
• SVG Content Documents
  • the epub:type attribute is now allowed on any element
• Structural semantics vocabulary
  • new term assessment
  • new term learning-objective
  • new term learning-resource
  • new term loa
  • new term lov
  • new term qna
  • new term revision-history

Changes related to EDUPUB

• Identification of EDUPUB content from the dc:type edupub
• Custom OPF checks for EDUPUB metadata rules
• Support for ditributable-object and manifest collections
• checks for epub:type semantics
• checks for headings-related rules

Changes to the internal EpubCheck's internals:

• Early parsing of dc:type in the OPFData object
• Possibility to set multiple XMLValidator (i.e. schemas) in most checkers
• Revamped prefix attribute parsing
• New API for representing vocabularies and property-datatype values.