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A MathJax sample that explains how to programatically access the MathML generated by MathJax. There's currently no public API for it, so this will get easier in the future.
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accessing_mathjax_mathml.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<!--via Davide Cervone on the MathJax User Group https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mathjax-users/unL8IjcrTto/DjHpH4BbPRcJ -->
<head>
<title>MathJax TeX to MathML Page</title>
<script>
function toMathML(jax,callback) {
var mml;
try {
mml = jax.root.toMathML("");
} catch(err) {
if (!err.restart) {throw err} // an actual error
return MathJax.Callback.After([toMathML,jax,callback],err.restart);
}
MathJax.Callback(callback)(mml);
}
</script>
<script type="text/x-mathjax-config">
MathJax.Hub.Config({
tex2jax: {inlineMath: [["$","$"],["\\(","\\)"]]}
});
MathJax.Hub.Queue(
function () {
var jax = MathJax.Hub.getAllJax();
for (var i = 0; i < jax.length; i++) {
toMathML(jax[i],function (mml) {
alert(jax[i].originalText + "\n\n=>\n\n"+ mml);
});
}
}
);
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS_HTML-full
"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p>
When $a \ne 0$, there are two solutions to \(ax^2 + bx + c = 0\) and
they are
$$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.$$
</p>
</body>
</html>
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