Re: epub as object

Hi Juan


Awesome! I think the epub3 model concept is very similar which is to 
represent epub as a ts/js object.

My next step is to develop xml project to serialize/deserialize the 
object to epub file.

I think it's a great idea to create ide like epub editor.


Let's see if we can work out something together. Or maybe even form a 
short term TF to define epub as object model.


Cheer,

Zheng


On 2021-02-27 3:19 p.m., Juan Corona wrote:
> Hey Zheng,
>
> Nice work, I'm excited to check this out!
>
> My first thought on this is to share that I've been working on 
> something similar:
> https://github.com/jccr/epubavocado <https://github.com/jccr/epubavocado>
>
> I built this originally for a side project of mine, to build a highly 
> technical EPUB viewer, possibly editor.
> My idea was to build this around VS Code (actually using 
> https://theia-ide.org/ <https://theia-ide.org/>)
>
> Do we have something in common with these concepts? Would love to discuss!
>
> Cheers,
> Juan
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 10:46 AM Xu Zheng <zhengxu7806@gmail.com 
> <mailto:zhengxu7806@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All
>
>
>     I started to work on some personal project around epub again.
>
>     Here is a very first little step - define epub as ts/js object. I
>     will
>     use it in my another project but please feel free to use it if it
>     could
>     benefit your project. Any feedback/issues are more than welcome.
>
>
>     https://www.npmjs.com/package/epub-object-ts
>     <https://www.npmjs.com/package/epub-object-ts>
>
>     https://github.com/Jeffxz/epub-object-ts
>     <https://github.com/Jeffxz/epub-object-ts>
>
>
>     Side Notes:
>
>     After all these years working on web browser and epub I started to
>     believe there is some possibility of epub as application that
>     could be
>     executed offline. The application that not focusing on replicating
>     physical publication such as pagination and TOC but to unleash the
>     creativity of web content engineer could be a different concept
>     for epub
>     use cases (but still within epub spec scope). And recently I
>     started my
>     new journey to experiment this idea.
>
>
>     Then what is a epub reader, right? Yes in this concept there is
>     not any
>     reader (since the package is not a book anymore). Web browser
>     should be
>     the main player.
>
>     What should I call it? Single entry epub? Single page epub? I am not
>     sure yet.
>
>     If anyone would be interested in this concept please feel free to
>     reach
>     out to me we can discuss.
>
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Zheng
>
>     W3C: https://www.w3.org/users/129468 <https://www.w3.org/users/129468>
>
>     Github: https://github.com/Jeffxz <https://github.com/Jeffxz>
>
>
>
-- 
Zheng Xu

W3C: https://www.w3.org/users/129468
Github: https://github.com/Jeffxz