Re: Mathematica and XML
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- Subject: [mg45953] Re: Mathematica and XML
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve1 at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:17:05 -0500 (EST)
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Aha! MathPlayer was just mentioned in another thread. I had forgotten to install it on my brand new PC. Having done that I find that it fixes (most of) the problems with XHTML+MathML saving. However, the formats using NotebookML are still broken. Steve Luttrell "Steve Luttrell" <steve1 at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk> wrote in message news:bvapo0$abu$1 at smc.vnet.net... > I am trying (yet again!) to use the Save As Special functionality of > Mathematica to create XML versions of Mathematica notebooks. I have > Mathematica version 5.0.1 running under Windows XP Home Edition. > > This time rather than try to explain what the problems are in a newsgroup > posting I have posted all the relevant files on-line, starting with one of > my old technical papers (published back in 1985) remastered as a Mathematica > notebook, and then trying out each of the Save As Special formats on it to > check what happens. > > The URL is http://www.luttrell.org.uk/construction/xml_problems.htm > > The bottom line is that Save As HTML nearly works in IE. The various Save As > XML formats cannot be read by the latest version of IE. However, the Save As > NotebookML and SAVE As NotebookML+MathML produce results that do indeed read > back into Mathematica correctly. > > It may be that I am making unreasonable demands on the Save As Special > functionality of Mathematica, or that I am being unreasonable in expecting > the latest version of IE to read the XML thus produced, but I don't feel > that I am being unreasonable in these expectations. For what it's worth, I > have also tried the latest version of W3C's Amaya browser but that didn't > work either. > > Maybe someone else will find that they CAN read the XML files that I have > produced. If so, please tell me about it! > > Steve Luttrell >