- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 13:56:18 -0800
- To: Jeremy Rand <jeremy@asofok.org>, <www-html@w3.org>
On 11/2/03 1:17 PM, "Jeremy Rand" <jeremy@asofok.org> wrote: > > Tantek Çelik wrote: > >> <num> (or <n>) - ordinal or generic numeric value. > > In other words, a mathematical expression. not an expression. a single value. the grammars of numerous computer languages understand and demonstrate the difference between the two. > Wouldn't MathML be > better-suited for that? for expressions yes. for simple numeric values i believe the expression is (no pun intended), swatting a fly with a sledgehammer. > (Yes, I know about the "pain to hand-author" > argument. There are enough MathML generators out there that it seems > pretty easy to use one to write the MathML fragment, and then paste it > into the XHTML document. Or it could be built into an XHTML editor, > like in Amaya.) many things are possible. as is mixing various DocBook XML markup into an XHTML document. there is still value in adding simple/generic solutions to XHTML itself rather than always resorting to domain-specific specialty markup. Tantek
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