IEC 62448:2009 specifies a generic format for multimedia e-publishing employed for e-book data interchange among data preparers and publishers, satisfying a number of publishers requirements:
- revisable,
- extensible and
- heterogeneous logical structure. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition, published in 2007 and constitutes a technical revision. The main changes with respect to the previous edition are:
- Addition of Annex B - XMDF XML format;
- Related changes in Clauses 2 and 6. This bilingual version, published in 2009-06, corresponds to the English version published in 2009-02. The French version of this standard has not been voted upon.