Re: [Caml-list] XML library for validating MathML

[Matt Gushee <matt@gushee.net>]

Oops, shoulda sent to the list first time. Sorry, Rich.

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:58:05AM -0700, Dario Teixeira wrote:
>> There are of course other XML libraries for Ocaml and let's not forget Cduce.
>> Can someone recommend one solution that is guaranteed to work with the
>> MathML DTD?  Note that I don't need to do much with the XML tree; pretty
>> much all I need is a boilerplate function that returns a boolean on whether
>> a string is valid or not.
> 
> Well ... PXP is supposed to be able to validate.  No idea if it can
> validate MathML though.

I've never worked with MathML, but the XML 1.0 spec says that a 
validating XML parser *must* validate against any DTD. I think PXP is 
XML 1.0-compliant, but if you're not sure, the W3C has a compliance test 
suite that you could use to verify it.

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