Question about Metadata

Hi All,

Seeking some clarification here. We have a large quantity of legacy books
we are in the process of reviewing and updating. These books have older
ePub 2 metadata declarations, and specifically the following 2 entries:



*<package version="3.0" unique-identifier="pub-id" prefix="a11y:
http://www.idpf.org/epub/vocab/package/a11y/#
<http://www.idpf.org/epub/vocab/package/a11y/#>" xml:lang="en"
xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf <http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf>"
xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML
<http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML>"><metadata
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>" xmlns:opf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf
<http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf>">*

My question is, do I just remove these 2 entries, or are they supposed to
be replaced with something else? I've looked over the current documentation
and it's not explicitly clear what to do here (or, at least I cannot
determine what to do). The Daisy Knowledge Base seems to suggest they can
just be removed (
http://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/metadata/evaluation.html), but I cannot
confirm that for sure.

Thanks for any feedback/guidance provided.

JF
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*John Foliot* |
Senior Industry Specialist, Digital Accessibility |
W3C Accessibility Standards Contributor |

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