EPUB Collection Roles Registry
Status of this Document
This document is subject to change at any time. The terms defined herein will never be removed, but may be
deprecated.
Any use of terms marked
[draft]
should be considered experimental.
Deprecated term are identified by the label
[deprecated]
. These terms
are no longer recommended for use.
Requests for additions, modifications and clarifications can be made through the
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Pull requests
are also welcome.
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1. Overview
This document lists all IDPF-defined roles for use with the Package Document
collection
element.
This document is not tied to a particular version of the EPUB® specification.
2. Roles
dictionary
Identifies the set of Content Documents that compose a single instance of an dictionary.
Refer to the
EPUB Dictionaries and Glossaries specification
for more information.
distributable-object
[draft]
Identifies the set of resources necessary for the processing/rendering of a
distributable object. Refer to the
EPUB Manifest Role specification
for more information.
index
Identifies the set of Content Documents that compose a single instance of an index.
Refer to the
EPUB Indexes specification
for more information.
index-group
Identifies the set of Content Documents that compose a single instance of an index group.
Refer to the
EPUB Indexes specification
for more information.
manifest
[draft]
Identifies the set of resources necessary for the processing/rendering of a
collection. Refer to the
EPUB Manifest Role specification
for more information.
preview
[draft]
Identifies the set of Content Documents to use to generate a preview of the EPUB
Publication. Refer to the
EPUB Previews
specification for more information.
scriptable-component
[draft]
Identifies the set of resources that constitute an embedded Scriptable Component. Refer to
EPUB Scriptable Components Packaging and Integration
for more information.
3. Extensions
For a list of third-party implementations of the
collection
element, refer to
the extensions wiki at