The OPF document itself must use the namespace http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf, and the metadata will be in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) namespace, http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/.
Not exact matches
Once you begin editing ePub file (it doesn't matter ePub2 or ePub3) even so slightly or you save as to a different file Chapters will use XSLT transforms on NCX in case ePub2 to produce a Navigation
Document and adds it to manifest then it adds any required by ePub3 metadata adding it too to the package
OPF and upgrades package version to 3.
The
OPF file is an XML
document, and it uses a defined set of tags to encode data (similar to HTML) specified by the IDPF.
Whenever you add epub: switch to a
document, you must also include the properties = «switch» attribute to that HTML
document's manifest item in the
OPF file.