Hi Daniel,
Your first cited example is HTML5, not plain HTML, since it starts with
the HTML5 signature:
<!doctype html>
<html>...
However, the second example was illuminating. That is an ordinary HTML
page, but Firefox does format the MathML. The trick, it seems, is to
not use a namespace prefix on the MathML elements.
This does not format in Firefox in HTML pages:
<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";>
<mml:msup>
<mml:mi>x</mml:mi>
<mml:mn>3</mml:mn>
</mml:msup>
</mml:math>
But this does format in Firefox:
<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";>
<msup>
<mi>x</mi>
<mn>3</mn>
</msup>
</math>
Since HTML was an SGML application, it predates namespaces. So Firefox
is probably just recognizing the element names when the prefix is not
used, and does not recognize the element names like <mml:math> when the
prefix is used.
Do your MathML files use a namespace prefix? If you remove the prefix
(but keep the default namespace declaration on the <math> element, do
they copy through to the HTML output without a prefix, and then display
properly? I'm not sure if the processor will add a prefix or not.
--
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
On 12/8/2013 1:43 AM, Daniel Bishop wrote:
Hello Bob,
I looked up two examples that are displayed correctly in Firefox:
http://www.math-it.org/Publikationen/MathML.html
http://gorupec.awardspace.com/mathml.html
The second one says in the beginning:
"*NOTE: this is a standard HTML page that cannot render the MathML
examples below! Click on this MathML examples
<http://gorupec.awardspace.com/mathml.xhtml> twin page made with the
XHTML that actually can render equations (of course, only if your
browser supports MathML). *
However both pages render correctly:
http://gorupec.awardspace.com/mathml.html
http://gorupec.awardspace.com/mathml.xhtml
Daniel
Neil Soiffer <[email protected]> schrieb am 20:21 Freitag, 6.Dezember 2013:
MathML is supported in Firefox as part of XHTML. It is also supported as
part of HTML5, but you can't use namespace prefixes in HTML5 because
HTML5 doesn't know about namespaces. For compatibility between XHTML and
HTML5, you can do the following:
<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/math/MathML";>
...
</math>
This will put the math in the right namespace in XHTML and because it
has no namespace prefixes, will work in HTML5 also. Of course, the
DOCTYPE needs to be specified correctly to tell Firefox that you have
XHTML or HTML5. MathML is not part of HTML4, so make sure you get the
DOCTYPE right.
Neil Soiffer
Senior Scientist
Design Science, Inc.
www.dessci.com <http://www.dessci.com/>
~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor ~
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
The difference between HTML and XHTML for MathML display seems to be
a feature of Firefox. If I manually convert the HTML file to XHTML
with no change to the MathML markup, and rename it with .xhtml, then
Firefox displays the MathML properly. So if Firefox thinks the file
is XHTML, it displays the MathML, otherwise it doesn't.
Can you provide an example of an HTML file that displays MathML in
Firefox? I'd like to see what the differences are.
--
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
On 12/6/2013 7:23 AM, Daniel Bishop wrote:
Thank you Stefan and Thomas,
you have helped me to make a big step ahead using docbook.
Fop is now working, although not quite elegantly. I have
installed jeuclid:
$ sudo apt-get install libjeuclid-fop-java libjeuclid-core-java
I had to modify the /usr/bin/fop script by adding these two lines:
find_jars /usr/share/java/jeuclid-core.__jar
find_jars /usr/share/java/jeuclid-fop.__jar
I know, this is Ubuntu/Debian specific, but there must be a less
intrusive way of letting fop know about the jeuclid jars?
Copying the
jars into /usr/share/fop/ didn't help.
Concerning the math formatting only working in xhtml, not in
html files,
I followed Stefans advice. He is right, and I can create working
xhtml
files.
It is strange that the formatting doesn't work for html files.
Renaming
the generated test.xhtml to test.html removes all math content
again.
There are many examples that display MathML content in html
files. Is
there any possibility to make xsltproc produce such html files
without
missing content?
Thank you
Daniel
Concerning the math formatting only working in xhtml files, not
in html
files, I followed Stefans advice
Thomas Schraitle <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
schrieb am 14:23 Freitag, 6.Dezember
2013:
Hi,
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 07:50:16 -0500
Stefan Seefeld <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> [...]
> > Next, I process test.xml into test.pdf with the following
output:
> > ------------------------------__--------------------------
> > $ xsltproc -o test.fo <http://test.fo/>
> >
/usr/share/xml/docbook/__stylesheet/nwalsh/fo/docbook.__xsl test.xml
> > [...]
> > Unknown formatting object
"{http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/__MathML}math
<http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML%7Dmath>"
> > encountered (a child of fo:instream-foreign-object}. (See
position
> > 2:29495)
> > [...]
> > $
> > ------------------------------__--------------------------
>
> Again, use namespace-aware stylesheets.
>
> In addition, I had to patch my fop installation to make it
handle
> MathML correctly. Whether that is an actual problem for you
depends
> on the platform you are on, as well as the specific FOP
version you
> are using.
I don't think the problem is related to stylesheets, be it namespace
aware or not.
FOP needs to "know" how to format MathML markup. By default,
this is not
the case. Install the JEuclid plugin[1] and try it again.
----- References
[1] http://jeuclid.sourceforge.__net/trunk/jeuclid-fop/
<http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/trunk/jeuclid-fop/>
--
Gruß/Regards,
Thomas Schraitle
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