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Abstract

The xmltex system is a parser implemented entirely within TeX for documents conforming to the XML Namespace Recommendation. In addition to parsing a document, it allows typesetting codes to be associated with elements and attributes in the document instance.

Typesetting styles will be loaded on demand when an element in a new namespace is first encountered: configuration files specify the correspondences between namespace names and xmltex styles. This allows elements from different namespaces to be freely mixed. In particular, MathML elements may be embedded in TEI, XHTML, DocBook, or XSL FO documents, and the math typesetting rules will be automatically loaded and the math expression will be typeset.

The system is still under development and not all of the mentioned document types are completely implemented; however, many real documents may already be processed.

The core xmltex system is due to the speaker. Much of the work developing xmltex styles for document types (especially TEI and XSL FO) has been undertaken by Sebastian Rahtz, building on his earlier jadetex project.

This talk will demonstrate some of the output of the MathML rendering in xmltex and contrast it with alternative approaches such as using XSL to transform MathML to normal TeX syntax.