David,

i owe you a beer :)

thanks a million !

/maia


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:41 PM
Subject: Re:  catch MathML


> 
> > in my dtd im referencing MathML by
> excellent taste!, everyone's dtd ought to do this:-)
> 
> > the very silly question i have is why isn't
> That's not silly at all, you are in very good company, the question gets
> asked a lot (I'm sure an answer will be in the faq, somwehere)
> 
> 
> MathML is in the namespace http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML (the
> oldest namespace allocated by W3C, except for the namespace defined in
> the namespace rec:-) this namespace is defaulted by the DTD so even if
> you have not got an explicit namespace declaration, all the mathml
> elements will be in this namespace.
> 
> unprefixed element names in Xpath always mean elements in no-namespace
> so in your stylesheet go
> xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" 
> then use m:math this will match your math element (even though the
> element in the document isn't prefixed)
> 
> Please don't use the dtd
> 
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/dtd/mathml2.dtd"
> 
> That was corrected by errata to MathML 2, and replaced altogether in
> MathML 2 2nd edition, the correct dtd is
> http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/mathml2/mathml2.dtd
> see the notes at
> 
> http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD
> and
> http://www.w3.org/Math/characters.
> 
> Unfortunately the W3C rules on publishing in TR area mean it's not
> possible to change any files after they are published which is
> reasonable for documents but bad for machine readable files like DTD,
> which is why in the 2nd edition of MathML makes the normative DTD in the
> /Math area rather than in /TR.
> 
> David
> Co Editor of MathML2 when I'm not chatting on this list
> 
> 
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