Service to convert W3C Technical Reports to EPUB 3

This is an interface an on-line service to convert W3C Technical Reports, authored in ReSpec, to EPUB 3

The service receives the parameters through the form above, and generates an EPUB 3 instance stored on the local machine. The possible form parameters are:

url
The URL for the either the (HTML) content or for the (JSON) configuration file for a collection of documents. In the second case all other parameter values are ignored. This value is required.
respec
Whether the source has to be pre-processed by ReSpec (“true”) or is a final HTML (“false”). If the former, the source is converted using W3C’s Spec Generator into HTML first.
publishDate
(☨)Publication date. Overwrites the value in the “respecConfig” structure in the source.
specStatus
Specification date. Overwrites the value in the “respecConfig” structure in the source.
Add section links with a § character. Overwrites the value in the “respecConfig” structure in the source.
maxTocLevel
Maximum sectioning level for the Table of Content. Overwrites the value in the “respecConfig” structure in the source.

By default, the value of respec is false. However, if one of publishDate, specStatus, addSectionLinks, or maxTocLevel are set, respec=true is implied (i.e., it is not necessary to set it explicitly).

Usage examples

Convert the HTML file (as generated by ReSpec) to an EPUB 3 file. The generated publication's name is short-name.epub, where short-name is set in the ReSpec configuration: 

http://iherman-r2epub.deno.dev?url=https://www.example.org/doc.html

Convert the HTML ReSpec source to an EPUB 3 file. The source is converted on-the-fly by respec:

http://iherman-r2epub.deno.dev?url=https://www.example.org/doc.html&respec=true

Convert the HTML ReSpec source to an EPUB 3 file, setting its spec status to REC. The source is converted on-the-fly by respec, overwriting the specStatus entry in the configuration to REC:

http://iherman-r2epub.deno.dev?url=https://www.example.org/doc.html&respec=true&specStatus=REC

Generates a collection of HTML documents to an EPUB 3 file, described by a (JSON) configuration file:

http://iherman-r2epub.deno.dev?url=https://www.example.org/collection.json