Re: [dita] MathML entities issue in DITA 1.3

["Jang F.M. Graat" <jang@jang.nl>]

Hello Tarun,

Yes, it does seem to be intentional, and I really have no idea how MathML will work in DITA in other editors. In general, I don't think anyone would be so foolish to try and write MathML as XML, so they would always require some plug-in that allows them to draw the equations up in some graphic manner, like MathFlow. And possibly, when using that plug-in in such environments, the entities will have to be included. As I mentioned, I will see if I can get some answers from the DITA gurus in my circle of friends.

I have almost finished the Simplified XML templates, so I will be sending you those files as a separate package (as they are part of the DITA 1.2 directory - so they do not need to be packaged with the final DITA 1.3 stuff. After finishing the templates I will switch back to DITA 1.3 and see if the MathML works on my machine when changing that thing in the DTD.

Kind regards from Amsterdam

Jang

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On 12 Mar 2015, at 12:25, Tarun Garg <tarung@adobe.com> wrote:

> I was looking at the MathML DTD fileset in the DITA 1.3 DTDs. In the file "mathml3-ditadriver.dtd", the following setting excludes the MathML entities:
> 
> 	<!-- DITA-specific: Don't allow use of general text entities. DITA documents should not
> 	     have any general text entity references.
> 	  -->
> 	<!ENTITY % mathml-charent.module "IGNORE" >
> 
> From the comment along with it, this seems to be intentional. But then how will MathML actually work with DITA 1.3, if these entities cannot be included in the DITA files ?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Tarun Garg | Adobe Systems | +91-120-2444711 | tarung@adobe.com