Re: SVG in text/html

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Jeff Schiller wrote:
>
> If browsers can provide an 'export DOM as XML' function as part of its 
> standard functionality, then my concern melts away with the proposal as 
> it stands (stood), since round-tripping then becomes feasible.  Has this 
> been considered by both SVG and HTML groups?
> 
> I seem to remember a discussion of such a mechanism as a requirement on 
> HTML5 User Agents that was rejected a couple weeks back...

The spec currently says:

   To enable authors to use MathML tools that only accept MathML in its 
   XML form, interactive HTML user agents are encouaraged to provide a way 
   to export any MathML fragment as a namespace-well-formed XML fragment. 

An equivalent sentence was present for SVG.

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Received on Tuesday, 15 April 2008 18:39:15 UTC