Re: details for /Math/XSL/ at w3

IS there any way to serve an xml document with embedded MathMl in a 
format other than xhtml, especially if the xml document contains a 
link to an xsl stylesheet which

a) causes the browser to reformat its content as xhtml
b) includes mathml.xsl via an xsl:include or xsl:import instruction

and get the MathMl to display properly? If there is a way, I have not 
had success in finding it.

>Hi.
>
>>  > > 3.  The document must not have a "<!DOCTYPE" declaration.
>>  >
>>  > It can reference a DOCTYPE but mozilla won't read it.
>>
>>  I thought I saw IE get upset when DOCTYPE was present.  Was that
>>  an anomaly?
>
>IE chokes on the *real* DTD which declares the plane 1 entities from
>Unicode 3.2, as MathML 2 is supposed to.  However David C. prepared a
>modified version of the *combined* XTHML+MathML dtd in which these
>entities are declared to be in the private usea area of the BMP.  That
>let's IE read the DTD.
>
>The point is this:  if you want a single file that works in both
>NS7/IE6+MathPlayer, say, then you need the following:
>
>0) a proper XHTML + MathML document with a
>1) DOCTYPE (to the modified DTD IE6 can read),
>2) MathML namespace indicated via a prefix,
>3) MathPlayer object tag,
>4) Processing instruction binding MathPlayer to the MathML namespace
>    prefix
>
>The killer is that this single file has to be served as XML to NS7 and
>HTML to IE6, which requires server-side trickery or something.
>
>So, the better alternative is to use David's stylesheet which does the
>MIME type switching for you client-side.  And, since it can write out
>the other declarations as well, you don't have to put in the awkward bits
>that have to be ignored by one browser or the other when preparing a
>single, common file.  So, going this route, you need
>
>0) a proper XHTML + MathML document with
>1) no DOCTYPE (which means you can't use entity names)
>2) MathML namespace indicated whatever way you find most convenient
>3) the stylesheet processing instruction (and stylesheet, of course)
>
>Anyway, that's my summary of the situation.  And, just to finish it
>off, I include minimal sample docs below, showing each method:
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Document which works in both IE6 and NS7 if served with the
>appropriate MIME type for each
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0//EN"
>                "http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/xhtml-math11-f.dtd">
>
><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
>xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
>   <head>
>    <title>An xhtml+dtd example</title>
>    <OBJECT ID="MathPlayer" 
>CLASSID="clsid:32F66A20-7614-11D4-BD11-00104BD3F987"></OBJECT>
>    <?IMPORT NAMESPACE="m" IMPLEMENTATION="#MathPlayer"?>
>   </head>
>   <body>
>     <h2>An xhtml+dtd example</h2>
>     <m:math>
> 
><m:mi>y</m:mi><m:mo>&ap;</m:mo><m:mfrac><m:mi>x</m:mi><m:mn>3</m:mn></m:mfrac>
>     </m:math>
>   </body>
></html>
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Simpler Document which works in both IE6 and NS7 when used with
>David Carlisle's stylesheet
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="pmathml.xsl"?>
><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>   <head>
>    <title>Universal Math Style Sheet example (no DTD)</title>
>   </head>
>   <body>
>     <h2>Universal Math Style Sheet example (no DTD)</h2>
>     <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
>       <mi>y</mi><mo>&#x02248;</mo><mfrac><mi>x</mi><mn>3</mn></mfrac>
>     </math>
>   </body>
></html>
>
>
>--Robert
>
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>Robert Miner                                    RobertM@dessci.com
>MathML 2.0 Specification Co-editor                    651-223-2883
>Design Science, Inc.   "How Science Communicates"   www.dessci.com
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-- 
Thanks,

gregm

Received on Friday, 2 August 2002 15:14:19 UTC