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Publication(Information about EPUB book)
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EPUB Publications is information about EPUB books.
EPUB Parser represents it as {EPUB::Publication} module and classes under the namespace and you can access them such like `EPUB::Parser.parse("path/to/book.epub").package`
Let
book = EPUB::Parser.parse("path/to/book.epub")
for continuing.
Five Models
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`book.package` is a package document, a root of information tree about the book, and it has attributes to access five major models of the publication; {EPUB::Publication::Package::Metadata Metadata}, {EPUB::Publication::Package::Manifest Manifest}, {EPUB::Publication::Package::Spine Spine}, {EPUB::Publication::Package::Guide Guide} and {EPUB::Publication::Package::Bindings Bindings}.
Each of them has information the book in the way its own.
Metadata
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{EPUB::Publication::Package::Metadata Metadata} is literally metadata of the book, including identifiers, titles, languages, links and so on.
You can access them by:
md = book.package.metadata # => EPUB::Publication::Package::Metadata
md.titles # => [#<EPUB::Publication::Package::Metadata::Title...>, #<EPUB::Publication::Package::Metadata::Title...>, ...]
# ...
Manifest
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Spine
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Guide
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Bindings
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Package
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References
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* [EPUB Publications 3.0][publications] on IDPF site
[publications]: http://www.idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html
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