[Dtb-talk] xmldtbook to NISO Z39.86

[Greg Kearney]

That is not correct. In fact DAISY Pipeline does not even produce  
DAISY/NISO 2002, which is not the same as DAISY  2.02 by the way.

The Pipeline narrator script will generate as a finished product two  
version of the book a DAISY/NISO z3986-3 and a DAISY 2.02 version.  
Should you need a text only DAISY/NISO 2005-3 book you can use the  
Pipeline to produce a DAISY 2.02 version and then the DTB forward  
migrator to transform it to DAISY/NISO z3986-3. (Pay no attention to  
the error messages this script generates by the way, they are bogus  
the book produced is fine.)

I use the Pipeline daily to generate DAISY/NISO z3986-3 books.

Here is a breakdown of the various DAISY standards.

DAISY 2.02 - HTML based, all playback devices and software will play  
2.02 standard books. Most widely used standard at the present time.

DAISY/NISO 2002 - XML based, outside of book generated by the National  
Library Service this standard is rarely used.

DAISY/NISO 2005 - XML based this is the most current standard. Most  
modern playback system offered today will play this standard.

Hope this helps.


Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
gkearney at gmail.com



On Mar 31, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> Dear Greg,
>
> Many thanks for your quck reply.
>
>> What you want is the DAISY Pipeline a free program for the DAISY
>> Consortium http://daisymfc.sourceforge.net/
>
> Yes, I know the pipeline, but I fear it won't help in the present
> situation.
> Indeed, as far as I could understand from a private conversation I had
> with one developer, the pipeline can produce NISO packages only for
> books conforming to the DTD of 2002 (i.e. Z39.86 version 2.02),  
> whereas
> the books of interest are conform to the 2005 version of the DTD.
>
> Any idea warmly appreciated.
> Thanks much for your reply, Greg.
> Sébastien.
>
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