EN 62448:2014

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-julij-2014
1DGRPHãþD
SIST EN 62448:2009
9HþSUHGVWDYQRVWQRH]DORåQLãWYRLQHNQMLJH2VQRYQLIRUPDW]DH]DORåQLãWYR
,(&
Multimedia e-publishing and e-books – Generic format for e-publishing (IEC 62448:2013)
Multimediasysteme und -geräte - E-Publishing und E-Books für Multimedia-
Anwendungen - Allgemeines Format für E-Publishing (IEC 62448:2013)
Systèmes et équipements multimédia - Publication et livres électroniques multimédia -
Format générique pour la publication électronique (CEI 62448:2013)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62448:2014
ICS:
01.140.40 Založništvo Publishing
33.160.60 9HþSUHGVWDYQLPXOWLPHGLMVNL Multimedia systems and
VLVWHPLLQRSUHPD]D teleconferencing equipment
WHOHNRQIHUHQFH
35.240.30 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in information,
informatiki, dokumentiranju in documentation and
založništvu publishing
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 62448
NORME EUROPÉENNE
April 2014
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 33.160.60; 35.240.30 Supersedes EN 62448:2009

English version
Multimedia systems and equipment -
Multimedia e-publishing and e-books -
Generic format for e-publishing
(IEC 62448:2013)
Systèmes et équipements multimédia - Multimediasysteme und -geräte -
Publication et livres électroniques E-Publishing und E-Books für Multimedia-
multimédia - Anwendungen -
Format générique pour la publication Allgemeines Format für E-Publishing
électronique (IEC 62448:2013)
(CEI 62448:2013)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2014-01-01. CENELEC members are bound to comply
with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard
the status of a national standard without any alteration.

Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on
application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other
language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified
to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus,
the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

CENELEC
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung

CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B - 1000 Brussels

© 2014 CENELEC - All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC members.
Ref. No. EN 62448:2014 E
Foreword
The text of document 100/2053/CDV, future edition 3 of IEC 62448, prepared by technical area 10,
"Multimedia e- publishing and e-book technologies", of IEC/TC 100, "Audio, video and multimedia
systems and equipment" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC
as EN 62448:2014.
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has (dop) 2014-10-18
to be implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national (dow) 2017-01-01
standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 62448:2009.
EN 62448:2009:
a) Addition of Annex C;
b) Related minor changes in Clause 6;
c) Updates in Annex B.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent
rights.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62448:2013 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated:
IEC 62605:2011 NOTE Harmonised as EN 62605:2011 (not modified).

- 3 - EN 62448:2014
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

NOTE  When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD
applies.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

ISO/IEC 19757-2 2008 Information technology - Document Schema - -
Definition Language (DSDL) -
Part 2: Regular-grammar-based validation -
RELAX NG
ISO 639-1 - Codes for the representation of names of - -
languages -
Part 1: Alpha-2 code
ISO 3166-1 - Codes for the representation of names of - -
countries and their subdivisions -
Part 1: Country codes
CENELEC
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung

CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B - 1000 Brussels

© 2014 CENELEC - All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC members.
Ref. No. EN 62448:2014 E
IEC 62448 ®
Edition 3.0 2013-11
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Multimedia systems and equipment – Multimedia e-publishing and e-books –

Generic format for e-publishing

Systèmes et équipements multimédia – Publication et livres électroniques

multimédia – Format générique pour la publication électronique

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
CODE PRIX XH
ICS 33.160.60; 35.240.30 ISBN 978-2-8322-1202-8

– 2 – 62448 © IEC:2013
CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 10
INTRODUCTION . 12
1 Scope . 13
2 Normative references . 13
3 Terms and definitions . 13
4 Position and requirements for generic format . 14
4.1 Generic format in contents creation/distribution model . 14
4.2 Requirements for generic format . 14
5 Notation . 14
6 Logical structure . 14
7 Semantics . 17
Annex A (normative) BBeB Xylog format . 18
A.1 General . 18
A.2 Structure description . 18
A.3 Block layout . 37
A.3.1 Layout . 37
A.3.2 Block . 37
A.3.3 Coordinate system . 38
A.4 Terminology . 38
A.4.1 Page layout . 38
A.4.2 Block layout . 39
A.4.3 Data types . 40
A.5 Elements and attributes . 41
A.5.1 BBeBXylog . 41
A.5.2 BookInformation . 41
A.5.3 Info . 41
A.5.4 BookInfo . 42
A.5.5 Title . 42
A.5.6 Author . 42
A.5.7 BookID . 42
A.5.8 Publisher . 42
A.5.9 Label . 43
A.5.10 Category . 43
A.5.11 Classification . 43
A.5.12 FreeText . 43
A.5.13 DocInfo . 43
A.5.14 Cthumbnail . 43
A.5.15 Language . 43
A.5.16 Creator . 43
A.5.17 SumPage . 44
A.5.18 Keyword . 44
A.5.19 TOC . 44
A.5.20 TocLabel . 44
A.5.21 Main . 44
A.5.22 Page . 44
A.5.23 Wait . 48

62448 © IEC:2013 – 3 –
A.5.24 TextBlock . 48
A.5.25 P . 55
A.5.26 Plot . 56
A.5.27 CR . 57
A.5.28 Fill . 57
A.5.29 Space . 57
A.5.30 CharButton . 57
A.5.31 Rubi. 57
A.5.32 Oyamoji . 57
A.5.33 Gaiji . 58
A.5.34 AltString . 58
A.5.35 Org . 58
A.5.36 Alt. 58
A.5.37 Rubimoji . 58
A.5.38 Box . 58
A.5.39 EmpDots . 59
A.5.40 EmpLine . 60
A.5.41 Sub . 60
A.5.42 Sup . 60
A.5.43 Yoko . 60
A.5.44 Tate . 60
A.5.45 Nekase . 60
A.5.46 NoBR . 60
A.5.47 DrawChar . 60
A.5.48 Italic . 61
A.5.49 Bold . 61
A.5.50 ImageBlock . 61
A.5.51 ButtonBlock . 64
A.5.52 BaseButton . 66
A.5.53 FocusinButton . 67
A.5.54 JumpTo . 67
A.5.55 Run . 67
A.5.56 SoundStop . 68
A.5.57 CloseWindow . 68
A.5.58 PushButton . 68
A.5.59 UpButton . 68
A.5.60 Canvas . 69
A.5.61 PutObj . 70
A.5.62 Moveto . 71
A.5.63 Lineto . 71
A.5.64 DrawBox . 72
A.5.65 DrawEllipse . 73
A.5.66 RuledLine . 74
A.5.67 Style . 74
A.5.68 BookStyle . 74
A.5.69 SetDefault . 75
A.5.70 RegistFont . 76
A.5.71 BookSetting . 77
A.5.72 TextStyle . 78

– 4 – 62448 © IEC:2013
A.5.73 BlockStyle . 82
A.5.74 PageStyle . 84
A.5.75 Objects . 87
A.5.76 Window . 87
A.5.77 PopUpWin . 88
A.5.78 Sound . 88
A.5.79 SoundStream . 89
A.5.80 ImageStream . 89
A.5.81 Header . 90
A.5.82 Footer . 91
A.5.83 eSound . 92
A.5.84 Font . 92
A.5.85 Image . 93
A.5.86 Button . 94
A.6 Reserved elements . 94
A.6.1 General . 94
A.6.2 ShowOrder . 94
A.6.3 SetText . 94
A.6.4 div . 94
A.6.5 SendMessage . 95
A.6.6 SimpleTextBlock . 95
A.6.7 MoveObj . 95
A.6.8 ViewPoint . 95
A.6.9 MiniPage . 95
A.6.10 PageDiv . 95
A.6.11 BlockList . 95
A.6.12 Text . 95
A.6.13 SimpleText . 95
A.6.14 Locate . 95
A.6.15 Import . 95
A.6.16 ObjLink . 95
A.6.17 FileLink . 95
A.6.18 Solo . 96
A.6.19 Pages . 96
A.6.20 Template . 96
A.6.21 TemplateSet . 96
A.6.22 PlotText . 96
A.6.23 AutoSpacing . 96
A.6.24 Span . 96
A.6.25 Property . 96
Annex B (normative) XMDF XML format . 97
B.1 General . 97
B.2 Overview of the format’s structure . 97
B.3 Elements and attributes . 98
B.3.1 General . 98
B.3.2 Page_ID . 98
B.3.3 Object_ID . 99
B.3.4 Char_ID . 99
B.3.5 Reading . 99

62448 © IEC:2013 – 5 –
B.3.6 Filename . 99
B.3.7 Standard character . 100
B.3.8 Standard character string . 100
B.3.9 Extended character. 100
B.3.10 Extended character string . 101
B.3.11 External character . 101
B.3.12 External character string . 102
B.3.13 External extended character string . 102
B.3.14 Coordinates . 102
B.3.15 Polygonal_region . 103
B.3.16 Color . 103
B.3.17 Date . 104
B.3.18 Time . 104
B.3.19 Country. 104
B.3.20 Personal_name. 104
B.3.21 Organization_name . 105
B.3.22 Address . 105
B.3.23 Permission . 106
B.3.24 Keyword . 106
B.3.25 Telephone_number . 107
B.3.26 Mail_address . 107
B.4 Description format details . 108
B.4.1 General . 108
B.4.2 Book information modules . 109
B.4.3 Bibliographic data . 109
B.4.4 Content management module . 116
B.4.5 Event info module . 129
B.4.6 Parts data module . 134
B.4.7 Object instances . 139
B.5 Color names (normative) . 197
B.6 Localization (informative) . 198
B.6.1 Possible additions . 198
B.6.2 Standard characters . 198
B.6.3 Characters usable for reading . 199
B.6.4 Sorting rules for . 199
B.6.5 Additional attributes for . 200
B.7 Specification of the XMDF XML format in the RELAX NG compact syntax . 200
B.7.1 General . 200
B.7.2 Tags and attributes for object instances, bibliographic data
and other data for content structure . 200
B.7.3 Tags and attributes for dictionary data object instance . 229
B.7.4 Tags and attributes for text object instance 2 . 235
Annex C (normative) ESP format . 248
C.1 General . 248
C.2 Overview. 248
C.2.1 Content structure . 248
C.2.2 XML files . 249
C.2.3 The relationship between body data and style data . 249
C.2.4 Character codes . 250

– 6 – 62448 © IEC:2013
C.2.5 Line break codes . 250
C.2.6 Coding precautions . 250
C.2.7 Restrictions . 251
C.3 Elements and attributes . 252
C.3.1 General . 252
C.3.2 Common tags . 253
C.3.3 Text-related tags . 255
C.3.4 Dictionary-related tags . 271
C.3.5 Search-table related tags . 276
C.3.6 Comic-related tags . 279
C.3.7 Bibliography data tags . 285
C.3.8 Global settings data tags . 289
C.3.9 Table of contents/item data tags . 290
C.3.10 Animation data tags . 292
C.4 Style data . 293
C.4.1 General . 293
C.4.2 Properties . 293
C.4.3 Property-selector combinations . 305
C.5 Comments to specifications . 313
C.5.1 Block tag behavior . 313
C.5.2 Style data parsing . 314
C.5.3 Folder structure . 315
C.5.4 Indicating vendor-specific information . 316
C.5.5 Minimum/small/medium/large/maximum values that indicate
text size, text spacing, and line spacing . 317
C.5.6 Font size descriptions . 317
C.6 Color names . 317
C.7 Specification of ESP format in the RELAX NG compact syntax . 318
Bibliography . 352

Figure 1 – Contents creation/distribution model . 14
Figure A.1 – Conceptual diagram of the “Block layout” . 37
Figure A.2 – Coordinate system . 38
Figure A.3 – Page layout composition . 39
Figure A.4 – Block layout composition . 40
Figure A.5 – Bgimagemode attribute . 46
Figure A.6 – Layout attribute . 47
Figure B.1 – XML tree structure . 98
Figure B.2 – Example of valign=”middle” . 140
Figure B.3 – Example of dropped capital . 145
Figure B.4 – Left and right margin of a paragraph . 145
Figure B.5 – Horizontal writing in vertical text . 148
Figure B.6 – Ruby . 149
Figure B.7 – Example of search page object instance rendering . 171
Figure B.8 – Comic object Instance. 176
Figure C.1 – Content XML file example . 249
Figure C.2 – Style data example . 250

62448 © IEC:2013 – 7 –
Figure C.3 – Tag coding example . 250
Figure C.4 – Numbers that indicate the origin point for the absolute position on the
page . 253
Figure C.5 –