[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#454214: HOWTO: DocBook+MathML+SVG

[Gordon Haverland]

Package: docbook-xml
Version: 4.5-5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

In the past I've managed to shoehorn DocBook into doing MathML and 
DocBook into dong SVG.  And outside of DocBook-5 based stuff, it
still doesn't look like any of this is easy.  (By the way, when is 
DocBook-5 making its way into Debian?)

Anyway, I got restarted on an old project, which required MathML and SVG 
in DocBook.  I could not make this work using the dbmathml DTD, I had to 
go back to the docbookx DTD.  What works is:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd"
[
<!ENTITY % MATHML.prefixed "INCLUDE">
<!ENTITY % MATHML.prefix "mml">
<!ENTITY % equation.content "(alt?, (graphic+|mediaobject+|mml:math))">
<!ENTITY % inlineequation.content 
                "(alt?, (inlinegraphic+|inlinemediaobject+|mml:math))">
<!ENTITY % mathml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD MathML 2.0//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/mathml2/mathml2.dtd">
%mathml;
]
>
...
	    <mml:math>
              <mml:mfrac>
                <mml:mn>1</mml:mn>
                <mml:mn>1</mml:mn>
              </mml:mfrac>
              <mml:mo>=</mml:mo>
              <mml:mfrac>
                <mml:mn>2</mml:mn>
                <mml:mn>2</mml:mn>
              </mml:mfrac>
	    </mml:math>
...
        <mediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata format="SVG" fileref="house.svg"/>
	  </imageobject>
	</mediaobject>

I could not find a way to actually put SVG into the DocBook-XML source.  
But perhaps a file could get added to the documentation telling people 
how to do this magic in DocBook-4.x?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages docbook-xml depends on:
ii  sgml-base                     1.26       SGML infrastructure and SGML catal
ii  sgml-data                     2.0.3      common SGML and XML data
ii  xml-core                      0.11       XML infrastructure and XML catalog

docbook-xml recommends no packages.

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