DTBook structure checker
This section proposes a document structure checker operating on XML DTBook documents. For a given document, this structure checker generates a report in HTML giving an overview of the structure of the document.
If the input document is not an XML DTBook document, this checker uses the converters of the multichannel publishing chain to create a DTBook and analyses it.
The generated report shows:
- the metadata included in the document (title, language, isbn, ...)
- the full table of contents of the document structured as a tree
- how many page numbers are tagged in the document and the first and last value found
- for each image referenced in the document, if it is associated with:
- a caption
- a short alternative
- one or several production notes
- for each table of the document, how many columns and rows it contains, if it contains a caption and headers
- how many footnotes, endnotes, lists, side bars, external and internal links are present
Please not that this progam cannot be considered as an "accessibility checker" because checking for accessibility requires human expertise. However this structure checker can be useful in an accessible information multichannel production chain because it can help producers to monitor the level of structure of files without analysing the whole content of documents.