- From: Stan Devitt <jsdevitt@stratumtek.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:33:12 -0400
- To: Max Froumentin <mf@w3.org>
- CC: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>, W3C MathML Discussion <www-math@w3.org>
Probably wrong path to pmathml.xsl ... I'll check: Max Froumentin wrote: >Hi Bill, > >William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu> wrote: > > > >>>in http://www.w3.org/Math/Group/draft-spec/chapter7.html#id.7.1.3 >>> >>> >>Since that's a password-protected URI >> >> > >Oops. Sorry, >http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-MathML2-20030411/chapter7.html#id.7.1.3 >Note that it was already in the first edition of MathML2. > > > >>may I be so bold as to inquire here why an xhtml namespace should >>require a mimetype? (I suppose I should have said "xml namespace", >>but, apart from electronic data interchange contexts, no other root >>namespace for small xml namespaces comes to mind.) >> >> > >Because it is expected that an MathML document be transmitted over HTTP, >and looking at the content-type header to check what the document type is >is easier than actually loading the document and looking at it. > >With content negociation, a server could offer to send an equation at >a given URI as PNG or MathML, or SVG, depending on the contents of the >request's Accept header. > > > >>(Does ruby have a mimetype?) >> >> > >There isn't an official mime type, as far as I'm aware, although >application/x-ruby has been suggested. > > > >>Is the idea that a mimetype is required for included MathML objects in >>markups like TEI? >> >> > >I don't know much about TEI, but I imagine it would be like HTML, or >Docbook, where can you have inline MathML fragments with the MathML >namespace (bar DTD validation issues). In this case the namespace is >sufficient and the mime type of the compound document would be >expected to be that of the outermost language. > >Hope this helps, > >Max. > > > >
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