Hi all,

I know there are many great programmers in the forums who created the most useful tools for Japanese learners. So I hope I could get the answer here. =D

Does any one know where I can find the format specification for the EPWING dictionary format? I'm thinking of integrating it in my Android app Jade Reader or some future projects.

Greatly appreciation any answers or directions.

For my Android app, OCR Manga Reader, I utilized eblib to add EPWING support.

I've never been able to find a formal specification though.

Good luck! Adding EPWING support would make Jade Reader much more useful for intermediate and advanced learners, who have likely outgrown EDICT. I know I'd give it a try.

@cb4960 Thanks! I'll look into it.

By the way, your app looks awesome. (And it's open source!)

cb4960 Wrote:I've never been able to find a formal specification though.

I think Fujitsu or someone used to have one but the format has been dropped by the companies who created and used it. The Japanese Wikipedia page on EPWING is mostly dead links and even the EPWING Consortium website is completely gone too.

I guess at this point the library is the specification.

Possibly here?
http://es.sourceforge.jp/projects/classi...ee/74/dtd/


I don't know a whole lot but:
dtd - Document Type Definition (file). It is basically a file that tells whether the input XML file is valid to the defined rules or not. It looks like these are to validate EPWING entries.

I only know about this because in order to programmatically create and send notes to the Evernote server, you need to validate the note via a dtd in order to ensure it is properly formed.