Open Books and XML

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

Here's a specification I found that seems to be designed for at least part of what we're looking for:

<http://openebook.org/>

It's intended for electronic book reading systems.  I don't know if it handles 
hyperlinks, but I'm not sure if we want to do links in a textbook anyway.  It 
occurs to me that if the intent of all this is to make texts available for 
schools that may not be able to afford them, making them useable primarily on 
the WWW may be wrong-headed.  If a school can't afford new texts, is it likely 
to be able to keep enough computers internet connected for all the students to 
read our texts on?  It's more likely (I think) that the texts will be printed 
off the net and copied on paper for all the students in a class.

Anyway, take a look at OEB 1.0, the Open eBook Document Type Definition.  I 
think it's something we may want to support.

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