Re: EPUBCheck v4.2.0-alpha-1 released: a preview of (partial) EPUB 3.2 support!

+1!
Great news Romain. Thank you very much for all what you are doing.

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> On 14 Jan 2019, at 12:25, Romain <rdeltour@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> The first preview release of EPUBCheck v4.2.0 (alpha 1), which provides initial (but limited) support for checking conformance to EPUB 3.2, is now available at the following page:
> 
>  https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/releases/tag/v4.2.0-alpha-1  
> 
> It essentially consists in updates to the schemas for Package Documents and Content Documents. Most notably, EPUBCheck now uses the latest schemas from the Nu Html Checker, which are kept up-to-date with latest changes in the HTML standard. This is already a major step towards the full support of EPUB 3.2!
> 
> Some old HTML features or elements have been deprecated or removed from HTML and are now reported as errors. It will be particularly important to test these alpha/beta versions of EPUBCheck as widely as possible, so that we can work towards a solid EPUB 3.2 support in due time (smile).
> 
> There are still many things left to implement before we can claim full conformance to the EPUB 3.2 specifications however; these are tracked as issues labelled as "spec: EPUB 3.2" in our issue tracker:
> 
>  https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22spec%3A+EPUB+3.2%22
> 
> As always, feedback is welcome, via replies to this email or directly to our issue tracker on GitHub:
> 
>  https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/issues
> 
> Best,
> Romain.
> 
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> Romain Deltour – @rdeltour
> Software and standards development
> The DAISY Consortium
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> 
> 

Received on Monday, 14 January 2019 16:48:11 UTC