Package eTextReader.OEB

The OEB package contains classes that encapsulate the data in an Open eBook publication's package file.

See:
Description

Interface Summary

OEBPackageFile	This interface allows access to information contained in an Open eBook package file.
TitleHandler

Class Summary

Heading	a convenience class that groups information about a document heading into a single structure
HTMLTitleHandler	This class is used to determine the title from a document whose media type is text/html.
OEBContributor	A simple wrapper class that combines a contributor name and the role that contributor played in creating the publication
OEBIdentifier	A simple wrapper class that combines a String identifier and the scheme of that identifier (for example, ISBN, DOI, URL)
OEBItem	This class encapsulates information about a single resource that is part of the package file.
OEBPackageFileImpl	An implementation of the methods in the OEBPackageFile interface that works by constructing a DOM model of the package file
OEBSpine	Provides a simple means to manage the items in a Open eBook package's spine element.

Package eTextReader.OEB Description

The OEB package contains classes that encapsulate the data in an Open eBook publication's package file. This file provides meta-data about the publication, a description of the resources making up the publication and at least one ordering of how those resources should be presented to the user.

The main class of interest is OEB.OEBPackageFileImpl, which provides methods to manipulate the information contained in the package file. Here is a brief example of how you would construct an OEBPackageFileImpl and then manipulate it to get information about a specific publication:

        OEBPackageFile pack = new OEBPackageFileImpl 
                ("http://www.cs.hope.edu/120ebook/CSCI120.oebpf");
        System.out.println ("Package title: " + pack.getPublicationTitle ());
        System.out.println ("Package description: " + pack.getDescription ());

        System.out.println ("Manifest information:");

        List manifest = pack.getManifestItems ();
        java.util.Iterator it = manifest.iterator ();
        while (it.hasNext ()) {
                Object itemObj = null;

                try {
                        itemObj = it.next ();
                        OEBItem item = (OEBItem) itemObj;
                        System.out.println ("ID: " + item.getID());
                        System.out.println ("href: " + item.getHref());
                        System.out.println ("Media-type: " + item.getMediaType());
                }
                catch (ClassCastException badItem) {
                                System.out.println (badItem + ": " + itemObj.getClass().toString());
                }
        }  // iterating through manifest

        //  Test out the various methods of the spine element
        ListIterator lit = pack.listIterator ();
        System.out.println ("Spine information: ");
        while (lit.hasNext ()) {

                OEBItem item = (OEBItem) lit.next ();
                System.out.println ("ID: " + item.getID());
                System.out.println ("href: " + item.getHref());
                System.out.println ("Media-type: " + item.getMediaType());
        }  // iterating through spine

An example of an Open eBook package file is located here