Re: Rendering Content MathML Dynamically

On Feb 17, 6:10 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> There is a long version and a short version of my question, so let me
> start with the short version.  Why does the "MathML Tester" at
> mozilla.org not work with Content MathML?
>
> Here is the link to the tester:
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/tester.html
>
> Now for the longer version of the question.  I am working on a Java
> applet with a public method which can return a snippet of Content
> MathML to JavaScript.  I want to insert this snippet somewhere into
> the (X)HTML and have it render dynamically.  The tester renders its
> MathML  by writing it to the src attribue of an iframe.  This works
> fine with Presentation MathML, but not with Content MathML.  I have
> tried several other approaches, such as putting the Content MathML
> into the inner HTML of a div element, or into the contents of a pop-up
> window.  All of these approaches work fine with Presentation MathML
> again, but not with Content MathML.  The problem seems to be that when
> the JavaScript is handling the Content MathML, it can't pick up on the
> mathml.xsl stylesheet that handles the Content to Presentation
> mapping.  I have tried modifying the tester's code to be sure the data
> which is being written to the iframe includes the stylesheet link.  I
> have also tried forcing the XSLT to be applied using XSLTProcessor's
> and such.  Nothing has worked.  I presume this must be a design
> feature rather than a bug, but I'm not sure of that.  Am I missing a
> workaround?  Am I just not using the XSLTProcessor's correctly?  How
> can I get the mathml.xsl stylesheet to be applied to dynamically
> rendered Content MathML?
>
> (BTW:  yes, I am trying to do this in Firefox 2.0, Windows and/or
> Linux.  And yes, for my purposes, it is important that I stay with
> Content MathML.)
>
> Regards,
> [email protected]

I had a lot of difficulty just sorting out the presentation MathML.
One way everything would be fine with IE than again FF will not
display, then one way would be just fine with FF but IE will give
errors.

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