DraganSr: 2025-12-13

Saturday, December 13, 2025

PragProg eBooks : md => xml => xhtml => epub

epub "won", still stuck in text format, getting closer to full html

but even web needs to evolve faster for "generative" content

good, informative podcast

SE Radio 695: Dave Thomas on Building eBooks Infrastructure – Software Engineering Radio

Conversion of PDF Books in ePub Format
PDF to EPUB Transformation: An Overview of Editing and Conversion Tools
Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers
Simplicity
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EPUB - Wikipedia

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Pride and Prejudice</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css" type="text/css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    ...
  </body>
</html>