Re: Exporting notebooks to xml (cnxml)
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- Subject: [mg61852] Re: Exporting notebooks to xml (cnxml)
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at globalsymmetry.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:40:04 -0500 (EST)
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G. Raymond Brown wrote: > > Mathgroup, > > My original submission was truncated. The remainder is given below. > > -GRB- > > From: "G. Raymond Brown" To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg61852] Exporting notebooks to xml (cnxml) >> I'm using Mathematica Version 5.1.1.0 in a Windows XP environment. >> >> I want to export the notebooks to XML + MathML files in the cnxlm > flavor >> described at http://cnx.rice.edu/. I'd prefer that the cells at the >> Subsubsection level not appear in the exported XML file. (This is not a >> big deal - I can easily edit them out.) >> >> I'm having some trouble understanding the help documentation for the >> Export function. The syntax is Export[file.ext,expr]. The expr needed >> appears to be NotebookObject[fe,id], where fe is a FrontEndObject and > id >> is an "integer that gives a unique serial number for this open > notebook . > > I=92m running only one FrontEnd (the one that opens when I click on the > Mathematica icon on my Dell laptop). How do I determine the values of fe > and id for use in NotebookObject? Have a look at "Manipulating Notebooks" in The Mathematica Book (on-line help). You may find it's more trouble that its worth as a means of obtaining your immediate goals. > Also, what should I set for ConversionOptions? For a previously > successful conversion (using MS Word as an intermediary and laboriously > inserting the MathML expressions by hand, one-by-one, an experience I do > not wish to repeat), the leading tags in the resulting file are: For the most part, Mathematica isn't going to do a lot for you. You have to program it to so anything other than exporting the XML formats it already understands. > <?xml version= 1.0 encoding= utf-8 standalone= no ?> > <!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN > http://cnx.rice.edu/cnxml/0.5/DTD/cnxml_mathml.dtd > > <document xmls= http://cnx.rice.edu/cmxml > xmlns:md= http://cnx.rice.edu/mdml/0.4 > xmlns:m= http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML/ > id= none > > > I can=92t even read this, much less understand it, which pretty well > establishes my level of understanding of XML. But I think it tells me > what should appear in ConversionOptions. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. Punt. I could be wrong, but at this point you would probably be better off trying to edit the xhtml by hand. I just found this little gem online. It should greatly accelerate your learning of XML. http://www.oxygenxml.com/ It will probably be of far more immediate use to you than Mathematica will be. There's a 30 freebe, which you can use for learning, but if you publish, you are obligated to pay. They also have academic discounts, but I don't know what they are. Buy this book, and read it with your favorite text editor opened.: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlpr3/index.html -- "Philosophy is written in this grand book, The Universe. ... But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language... in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, ...; without which wanders about in a dark labyrinth." The Lion of Gaul