Re: Processing CDATA content with DSSSL/Jade?

[Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Corte writes:
 > <!ELEMENT TeXMath - - CDATA>
 > 
 > to be used like this:
 > 
 > <texmath>$x = \frac{y}{z}$</texmath>
 > 
 > for direct inclusion of TeX math within my SGML document instance
 > (thus obtaining a powerful Math markup language without having to deal
 > with MathML).
Dealing with MathML using DSSSL is anyway not straightforward, or
demonstrably 100% possible at this stage.

 > - send the whole formula essentially unaltered through to Jadetex for
 >   TeX formatting or even
that would just work, if you persuade Jade to pass through the stuff

 > - process the formula with TeX using an external process and convert it
 >   to, say, GIF for inclusion in HTML output - I'm aware that this is by no
 >   means a side-effect-free operation :-).
plausible, if we had a mechanism in Jade to taking element X, and
running an arbitrary process....

 > my style sheet. Furthermore, there seems to be no way to call external
 > programs from DSSSL - this, however, is reasonable with respect to
 > side-effect-freeness and system-independence.
 > 
you could preprocess the SGML file to replace all <texmath> elements
with references to images, using some less PC  SGML processing
language, and then do further work in Jade

sebastian


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