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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
>


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