Problems with MathML stylesheet example

Folks,

I was excited to read about recent MathML progress in
a "Notices of the AMS" article about TeX, and even more
excited when I visited the "test page" with my IE 6.0
browser: http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/pmathml2.xml

But unfortunately when I copied the stylesheets indicated
on the page at http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/ to my webserver,
the sample text which worked so well when browsed from my
local filesystem wouldn't behave properly.

http://www.wolfendens.com/mathml/sample1.xml works as expected,
giving me the standard failure when I browse it with IE 6.0:

  Access is denied. Error processing resource
  'http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/mathml.xsl'.

But http://www.wolfendens.com/mathml/sample2.xml gives this
IE error, which is NOT expected:

  Error while parsing "http://www.wolfendens.com/mathml/ctop.xsl".
  The character '<' cannot be used in an attribute value. 

And http://www.wolfendens.com/mathml/sample3.xml gives this
IE error, which is also unexpected:

  The stylesheet does not contain a document element. The
  stylesheet may be empty, or it may not be a well-formed XML
  document. 

I imagine a common question is "How can I publish MathML"
web pages on my webserver so that folks can read them
with IE browsers?" Please consider posting this on your
FAQ.

Thanks for your attention,

    Peter Wolfenden

Received on Friday, 3 January 2003 20:51:43 UTC