MathML XHTML howto

[kai brommann <kai_brommann@yahoo.com>]

hi,
I'm trying to construct XHTML with MathML inside from
a valid DocBook MathML module XML DTD document using
xsltproc and the docbook-xsl-1.69.1/xhtml stylesheets.

as a result I get .html files containing s.th. like:

<mml:math
xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";
overflow="scroll">
 <mml:mrow>...
</mml:math>

suppose that I have installed all required fonts in
firefox-1.0.6 (while awaiting STIX ...). now the
following happens:

-if I rename to .xhtml (as suggested in The Complete
Guide), in firefox natively the presentation markup
works quite good, but no MathML content markup.

-if I install techexplorer and put the MathML in a
file with .mml ending, by the firefox settings thereby
the techexplorer is invoked, and content markup is
also working
(there is also the way to explicitly include
techexplorer as an applet inside a html page, with
MathML as additional argument)

-there is the possibility to use XSL files in
combination with XHTML, see
http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/

this seems the correct solution, though I didn't
manage to get it working properly in combination with
DocBook. So here is the question: 

is the XHTML output 
<mml:math xmlns:mml="..." ok, or did I miss a
configuration so that this gets transformed to 
<math xmlns="...">?

and is there a need for a customization layer such
that the resulting XHTML contains the additional line 
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
href="http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/mathml.xsl";?>

and what are the most recent (free) XSL files for
MathML? I can put them on the same server as the XHTML
files, no problem. Is it possible to get firefox
display MathML content markup thereby? 


btw. the PDF output works already perfectly using
dblatex.

thanx for your time and effort, 
kbr



		
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