Balisage Paper: Schemas in EPUB and OOXML: Sanity Checking versus Documentation
August 3 - 7, 2026
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Slides and Materials
- Bal2026-Murata-presentation-pptx.zip: Presentation slides in Microsoft PowerPoint (pptx)
EPUB 3.3. W3C Recommendation. 2023. Available at: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/
EPUB 3 Overview. IDPF Recommended Specification. 11 October 2011. https://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-overview.html
ISO/IEC 29500-1:2016. Information technology — Document description and processing languages — Office Open XML File Formats — Part 1: Fundamentals and Markup Language Reference.
ISO/IEC 29500-3:2015. Information technology — Document description and processing languages — Office Open XML File Formats — Part 3: Markup Compatibility and Extensibility.
EPUBCheck: The official conformance checker for EPUB publications. Available at: https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck
ISO/IEC 19757-2:2008. Information technology — Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) — Part 2: Regular-grammar-based validation — RELAX NG.
ISO/IEC 19757-3:2025. Information technology — Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) — Part 3: Rule-based validation — Schematron.
ISO/IEC 19757-4:2006. Information technology — Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) — Part 4: Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language (NVDL).
W3C XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition. W3C Recommendation. 2012. Available at: https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/
The Nu Html Checker. Available at: https://validator.w3.org/nu/