MathTools: An Open API for Convenient MathML Handling

摘要: Mathematical formulae carry complex and essential semantic information in a variety of formats. Accessing this with different systems requires standardized machine-readable format that is capable encoding presentational information. Even though MathML an official recommendation by W3C ISO standard for representing mathematical expressions, we could identify only very few which use the full descriptiveness MathML. MathML’s high complexity results steep learning curve novice users. We hypothesize reason why many community-driven projects refrain from using MathML, instead develop problem-specific data formats their purposes. provide user-friendly, open-source application programming interface controlling data. Our API allows one to create, manipulate, efficiently access commonly needed presentation content also provides tools calculating differences similarities between expressions. The determine distance expressions similarity measures. In addition, adapters numerous conversion canonicalization project. toolkit facilitates processing mathematics digital libraries without need obtain XML expertise.