Re: [docbook-apps] EPUB3: missing some meta data

[Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de>]

davep wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 08:05 PM, Keith Fahlgren wrote:
> <http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#confreq-rs-backward-epub2>
> 
>    It should process EPUB version 2 Publications as defined in[OPF2]
>    <http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#refOPF2>,[OPS2]
>    <http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#refOPS2>and[OCF2]
>    <http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#refOCF2>.
> 
> Very clear! Thanks Keith.

But what does "should process" really mean for a EPUB3 reading system:

- does it have to visualize e.g. Dublin Core (EPUB2) metadata?
- is it sufficient to only "process" a subset of EPUB2 metadata?

Michael