Re: Make testsuite usable for non browser applications

Regina Henschel <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:45:06 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.mathematics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi David,

David Carlisle schrieb:
> On 25/12/2014 20:50, Regina Henschel wrote:
>> I found, that the .mml files do not have a namespace in their root math
>> element.
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> This is only true of the archived mathml2 tests it was corrected in the
> mathml3 test suite.
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> For example
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> http://www.w3.org/Math/testsuite/build/main/Presentation/GeneralLayout/mfrac/mfrac7.mml
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> has a namespace (and directly renders in firefox)
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> but the older version of the test
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> http://www.w3.org/Math/testsuite/mml2-testsuite/Presentation/GeneralLayout/mfrac/mfrac7.mml
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> does not have the namespace (and just renders as an XML source tree in
> firefox)

Thanks for pointing me to the MathML3 version.

>
> Even if ODF is only using MathML2 feature, it would probably be best to
> use the current (MathML3) test suite and just filter out any tests using
> features you don't support.
>
> There have been several things fixed/improved in the test suite since
> the mathml2 version, which is just kept for archival reasons.

MathML3 would be no problem. If a test fails, I need to examine the 
details anyway. But I do not find an archive for offline use.

Apache OpenOffice can open .mml files directly and can import them in 
its "Formula Editor" module.

Kind regards
Regina