Re: Things needed (was math)

> > 4. The development of a scheme for embedding XML content in HTML
> > documents, so that the mathematics can be fully integrated into the text,
> > while retaining the necessary semantic value.
> > 
> > 5. Implementation by authoring tools and browsers of MathML and the XML
> > embedding scheme as mentioned above.
> 
> CMcCN::
> As I read it, the OBJECT tag introduced in HTML 4.0 would allow MATHML or 
> XML to be inserted into a document. Then all that is required is an 
> interpreter, either as a feature of a browser or as a plug-in.

It's not that simple, but let's not start a thread on these two.

W3C just held a 2-day meeting in the Bay Area just about that:
inclusion of XML in HTML.

The results of that meeting will get to us in due time (and several
WAI participants were there, like Raman or Murray Maloney).

For those of you who have W3C Member site access:
 http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/CoordGroup/9802/xml-in-html.html

Received on Thursday, 19 February 1998 04:19:49 UTC