IEC 62605:2021
(Main)Multimedia systems and equipment - Multimedia e-publishing and e-books - Interchange format for e-dictionaries
Multimedia systems and equipment - Multimedia e-publishing and e-books - Interchange format for e-dictionaries
IEC 62605:2021 specifies the interchange format for e-dictionaries among publishers, content creators and manufacturers.
This document does not address the following aspects:
• data formats for reading devices;
• elements necessary for final print reproduction only;
• rendering issues related to physical devices;
• security issues such as DRM for documents.
IEC 62605:2021 cancels and replaces the second edition published in 2016. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
The format described in Annex B was significantly enhanced in the following ways:
a) elements to enhance uses of data (e.g. web-related usage);
b) attribute for accessibility-related functions;
c) attributes for more detailed markup for data reusability.
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IEC 62605
Edition 3.0 2021-08
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Multimedia systems and equipment – Multimedia e-publishing and e-books –
Interchange format for e-dictionaries
IEC 62605:2021-08(en)
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IEC 62605
Edition 3.0 2021-08
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Multimedia systems and equipment – Multimedia e-publishing and e-books –
Interchange format for e-dictionaries
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................... 8
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 10
1 Scope ............................................................................................................................ 11
2 Normative references .................................................................................................... 11
3 Terms and definitions .................................................................................................... 11
4 Position and requirements for interchange format for e-dictionaries ............................... 11
4.1 Interchange format for e-dictionaries in contents creation/distribution model ......... 11
4.2 Requirements for interchange format for e-dictionaries ......................................... 12
5 File formats ................................................................................................................... 12
6 Semantics ..................................................................................................................... 13
Annex A (normative) XMDF-LeXML format ........................................................................... 14
A.1 General ................................................................................................................. 14
A.2 Overview of the format's structure ......................................................................... 14
A.3 Elements and attributes ........................................................................................ 15
A.3.1 General ......................................................................................................... 15
A.3.2 Page_ID ........................................................................................................ 15
A.3.3 Object_ID ...................................................................................................... 15
A.3.4 Char_ID ......................................................................................................... 15
A.3.5 Reading ......................................................................................................... 16
A.3.6 Filename ....................................................................................................... 16
A.3.7 Standard character ........................................................................................ 16
A.3.8 Standard character string .............................................................................. 17
A.3.9 Extended character ....................................................................................... 17
A.3.10 Extended character string .............................................................................. 17
A.3.11 External character ......................................................................................... 17
A.3.12 External character string ................................................................................ 19
A.3.13 External extended character string ................................................................ 19
A.3.14 Coordinates ................................................................................................... 19
A.3.15 Polygonal_region ........................................................................................... 20
A.3.16 Colour ........................................................................................................... 20
A.3.17 Date .............................................................................................................. 21
A.3.18 Time .............................................................................................................. 21
A.3.19 Country ......................................................................................................... 21
A.3.20 Personal_name ............................................................................................. 22
A.3.21 Organization_name ....................................................................................... 23
A.3.22 Address ......................................................................................................... 23
A.3.23 Permission .................................................................................................... 25
A.3.24 Keyword ........................................................................................................ 27
A.3.25 Telephone_number ........................................................................................ 27
A.3.26 Mail_address ................................................................................................. 28
A.4 Description format details ..................................................................................... 28
A.4.1 General ......................................................................................................... 28
A.4.2 Book information modules .................................................................... 29
A.4.3 Content management module ............................................... 44
A.4.4 Event info module ..................................................................... 62
A.4.5 Parts data module ............................................................... 68
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A.4.6 Object instances ............................................................................................ 74
A.5 Available colour names ....................................................................................... 122
A.6 Localization ........................................................................................................ 123
A.6.1 Possible additions ....................................................................................... 123
A.6.2 Standard characters .................................................................................... 123
A.6.3 Characters usable for reading ...................................................................... 124
A.6.4 Line breaking methods ................................................................................ 124
A.6.5 Sorting rules for ........................................................... 125
A.6.6 Additional attributes for ................................................ 126
A.6.7 Normalization methods for .......................................... 127
A.6.8 Character encoding conversions .................................................................. 128
A.7 Adaptation .......................................................................................................... 128
A.8 Specification of the XMDF-LeXML format in the RELAX NG syntax ..................... 128
Annex B (normative) LeXML format ................................................................................... 151
B.1 General ............................................................................................................... 151
B.2 Elements for content structure ............................................................................ 151
B.2.1 Parameter entity definition ........................................................................... 151
B.2.2 Root elements ............................................................................................. 152
B.2.3 headword-related elements .......................................................................... 155
B.2.4 Main-text related elements........................................................................... 161
B.2.5 Subheadword related elements .................................................................... 167
B.2.6 Other block elements ................................................................................... 172
B.2.7 Media related elements ............................................................................... 176
B.2.8 Other structural elements ............................................................................ 178
B.3 Inline elements ................................................................................................... 184
B.3.1 Labels ......................................................................................................... 184
B.3.2 pronunciation/accent related elements ......................................................... 187
B.3.3 Part-of-speech related and other elements .................................................. 189
B.3.4 Example-related elements ........................................................................... 190
B.3.5 Other dictionary-specific elements ............................................................... 193
B.3.6 Text-decoration related elements ................................................................. 203
B.3.7 Typesetting-related elements ....................................................................... 209
B.3.8 Other elements ............................................................................................ 212
B.3.9 Kanbun-related elements ............................................................................. 219
B.3.10 Mathematical formula-related data structure ................................................ 223
B.4 Specification of the LeXML format in the DTD syntax .......................................... 223
Bibliography ........................................................................................................................ 240
Figure 1 – Contents creation/distribution model .................................................................... 11
Figure 2 – Contents creation/distribution model (modified) .................................................... 12
Figure 3 – Relationship between concepts ............................................................................ 12
Figure A.1 – XML tree structure ............................................................................................ 14
Figure A.2 – Example of Page_ID ......................................................................................... 15
Figure A.3 – Example of Object ID ........................................................................................ 15
Figure A.4 – Examples of Char_ID ........................................................................................ 15
Figure A.5 – Example of reading ........................................................................................... 16
Figure A.6 – Example of filename ......................................................................................... 16
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Figure A.7 – Examples of the external_char element ............................................................ 19
Figure A.8 – Examples of external character string ............................................................... 19
Figure A.9 – Examples of coordinates ................................................................................... 20
Figure A.10 – Examples of the vertex element ...................................................................... 20
Figure A.11 – Examples of colour ......................................................................................... 21
Figure A.12 – Example of date .............................................................................................. 21
Figure A.13 – Example of time .............................................................................................. 21
Figure A.14 – Example of Country ........................................................................................ 21
Figure A.15 – Example of the personal_name element with its descendants ......................... 23
Figure A.16 – Example of the organization_name element .................................................... 23
Figure A.17 – Example of the address_info element with its descendants ............................. 25
Figure A.18 – Example of the permission info element with its descendant ........................... 26
Figure A.19 – Examples of the keyword_list element with its descendants ............................ 27
Figure A.20 – A book XML document .................................................................................... 29
Figure A.21 – Example of the bvf element with its descendants ............................................ 30
Figure A.22 – Examples of the book_info element with its descendants ................................ 43
Figure A.23 – Example of the body_module element with its descendants ............................ 44
Figure A.24 – Example of the flow_default_attribute element ................................................ 47
Figure A.25 – Example of the flow_default_delimiter element with its descendants ............... 54
Figure A.26 – Example of the special_page element ............................................................. 56
Figure A.27 – Example of the special_page element ............................................................. 56
Figure A.28 – Example of the special_page_link element with its descendants ..................... 57
Figure A.29 – Example of the search_table element with its descendants ............................. 61
Figure A.30 – Example of event_info element with its descendants ....................................... 62
Figure A.31 – Example of the event element with its descendants ........................................ 63
Figure A.32 – Example of the id attribute .............................................................................. 64
Figure A.33 – Example of the event_info element with its descendants ................................. 65
Figure A.34 – The object_id attribute .................................................................................... 66
Figure A.35 – The object_id attribute .................................................................................... 66
Figure A.36 – Examples of the action_play element .............................................................. 67
Figure A.37 – Examples of the action_page_jump element ................................................... 68
Figure A.38 – Example of the parts_module element with its descendants ............................ 69
Figure A.39 – Examples of the dynamic_text_object_entry element with itsdescendants ......................................................................................................................... 70
Figure A.40 – Example of the sound_object_entry element with its descendant .................... 71
Figure A.41 – Examples of the search_page_object_entry element with its descendants ...... 72
Figure A.42 – Example of the movie_object_entry element ................................................... 73
Figure A.43 – Example of the parts_module element with its descendants ............................ 74
Figure A.44 – Examples of the text_data element with its descendants ................................. 75
Figure A.45 – The valign attribute set to "middle" .................................................................. 76
Figure A.46 – Example of the text_default_attribute element with its descendants ................ 79
Figure A.47 – Example of dropped capital ............................................................................. 81
Figure A.48 – Left and right margin of a paragraph ............................................................... 81
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Figure A.49 – Examples of the p element .............................................................................. 82
Figure A.50 – Example of the scrolling_text element ............................................................. 83
Figure A.51 – Examples of the br element............................................................................. 83
Figure A.52 – Examples of the hr element............................................................................. 84
Figure A.53 – Examples of the font element .......................................................................... 87
Figure A.54 – Example of the mlg element and examples of how it is rendered ..................... 89
Figure A.55 – Examples of horizontal writing in vertical text .................................................. 89
Figure A.56 – Example of the ruby element with descendants and how they are to be
typically rendered ................................................................................................................. 90
Figure A.57 – Example of the external_char_element ........................................................... 91
Figure A.58 – Examples of Char_ID ...................................................................................... 91
Figure A.59 – Examples of the mask element ....................................................................... 92
Figure A.60 – Example of the head element with its descendants and the meaningelement ................................................................................................................................ 94
Figure A.61 – Examples of the example element with its descendants .................................. 95
Figure A.62 – Examples of the split elements ........................................................................ 97
Figure A.63 – Examples of the page_break element ............................................................. 98
Figure A.64 – The align attribute set to "top" ......................................................................... 99
Figure A.65 – The align attribute set to "middle" ................................................................. 100
Figure A.66 – The align attribute set to "bottom" ................................................................. 100
Figure A.67 – The align attribute set to "left" ....................................................................... 100
Figure A.68 – The align attribute set to "right" ..................................................................... 101
Figure A.69 – Examples of the object element .................................................................... 102
Figure A.70 – Example of the example element with its descendant .................................... 113
Figure A.71 – Example of the dict_data element with its descendants ................................. 114
Figure A.72 – Example of the flip_animation element with its descendants ......................... 116
Figure A.73 – Example of the search_page element with its descendants ........................... 117
Figure A.74 – Example of search page object instance rendering ....................................... 117
Figure A.75 – Example of the search_page element ........................................................... 118
Figure A.76 – Example of search result with search_type set to "matches_only" ................. 119
Figure A.77 – Example of search result with search_type set to "matches_first".................. 120
Figure A.78 – Examples of the key_input_region element ................................................... 121
Figure A.79 – Examples of the search_link_item and search link_title elements .................. 122
Figure A.80 – Example of the top_prohibit_char element .................................................... 125
Figure A.81 – Example of the end_prohibit_char element.................................................... 125
Figure A.82 – Example of the hanging_char element .......................................................... 125
Figure B.1 – Examples of the split element ......................................................................... 153
Figure B.2 – Example of the dic-item element with its descendants ..................................... 154
Figure B.3 – Example of the dic-item element with its descendants ..................................... 155
Figure B.4 – Example of the head element .......................................................................... 156
Figure B.5 – Example of the head element .......................................................................... 156
Figure B.6 – Examples of the key element .......................................................................... 158
Figure B.7 – Example of the snippet element ...................................................................... 159
Figure B.8 – Regular reading view ...................................................................................... 160
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Figure B.9 – Snippet view ................................................................................................... 160
Figure B.10 – Examples of the meaning element ................................................................ 162
Figure B.11 – Examples of the meaning-group element ...................................................... 163
Figure B.12 – Examples of the example element ................................................................. 164
Figure B.13 – Examples of the meaning element ................................................................ 165
Figure B.14 – Examples of the meaning element ................................................................ 165
Figure B.15 – Examples of the example-group element ....................................................... 166
Figure B.16 – Examples of the subheadword element ......................................................... 169
Figure B.17 – Examples of the subheadword elements ....................................................... 171
Figure B.18 – Examples of the subheadword element ......................................................... 172
Figure B.19 – Examples of the indexlist element ................................................................. 174
Figure B.20 – Example of the replace element .................................................................... 183
Figure B.21 – Example of the alabel element ...................................................................... 185
Figure B.22 – Examples of the alabel element .................................................................... 185
Figure B.23 – Example of the glabel element ...................................................................... 185
Figure B.24 – Examples of the glabel element .................................................................... 186
Figure B.25 – Example of the slabel element ...................................................................... 186
Figure B.26 – Examples of the slabel element .................................................................... 187
Figure B.27 – Example of the accent element ..................................................................... 187
Figure B.28 – Examples of the ipa element ......................................................................... 188
Figure B.29 – Examples of the ex- elements ....................................................................... 193
Figure B.30 – Examples of the abbr element ....................................................................... 193
Figure B.31 – Examples of the article element .................................................................... 194
Figure B.32 – Examples of the fullform element .................................................................. 195
Figure B.33 – Examples of the primary element .................................................................. 196
Figure B.34 – Example of the pro-n element ....................................................................... 197
Figure B.35 – Example of the pro-n element ....................................................................... 197
Figure B.36 – Example of the pro-n element ....................................................................... 197
Figure B.37 – Example of the pro-v element ....................................................................... 198
Figure B.38 – Example of the pro-v element ....................................................................... 198
Figure B.39 – Examples of the ymd element ....................................................................... 200
Figure B.40 – Examples of the ggk element ........................................................................ 202
Figure B.41 – Example of the kigo element ......................................................................... 203
Figure B.42 – Example of the b element ............................................................................. 204
Figure B.43 – Examples of the sub and sup elements ......................................................... 206
Figure B.44 – Example of the ud element ............................................................................ 209
Figure B.45 – Examples of the nobr element ....................................................................... 210
Figure B.46 – Examples of the ruby, rb and rt elements ...................................................... 211
Figure B.47 – Examples of the gix element ......................................................................... 214
Figure B.48 – Examples of the ph attribute ......................................................................... 216
Figure B.49 – Example of the spellout element ................................................................... 217
Figure B.50 – Example of the spellout element ................................................................... 218
Figure B.51 – Example of kanbun by the Ed.2 specifications............................................... 220
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Figure B.52 – Example of kanbun by the specifications of Ed.3 and thereafter .................... 220
Figure B.53 – Examples of the kkaeri element .................................................................... 221
Figure B.54 – Examples of the kkaeri element .....
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