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[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:53, Brendan Kidwell <snarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I noticed the name conflict a year or two ago. The 'openZIM' project's
> web site indicates it was created in 2009. I don't see how they could
> have missed the existing Zim Desktop Wiki project at that time.
>
> I don't understand exactly what openZIM does at a low level. It's not
> clear at first glance what markup language is used to encode rich
> text. Why not use the more widely-accepted EPUB format, and create a
> nice set of EPUB readers for various platforms including UI features
> geared towards large wikis and large reference works?
>

Isn't epub jus an HTML container?

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