Dear MathML developers, and here's yet another point I would like to see addressed: MathML defines many named entities (such as ⁢). These entities are only valid if the MathML DTD is included in the document, and the documents are standalone documents. This is noted in the MathML 2 spec at 6.2.1. However, this location is not prominent enough. I've ran across many MathML documents which used these entities but did not declare the doctype - most notable all .mml files in the MathML testsuite. Now the users complain that their document does not get rendered - and all I can answer them is what they have is not valid MathML. I would therefore like it to be more clear in the spec that the named entities are only valid in standalone MathML document with a dtd. Users can not use the generated MathML code in their embedded examples without modification. I would like to see it discouraged to use named entities except for cases where a "readable" notation of MathML is needed. Max Berger e-mail: max@berger.name -- PGP/GnuPG ID: E81592BC Print: F489F8759D4132923EC4 BC7E072AB73AE81592BC For information about me or my projects please see http:// max.berger.nameReceived on Monday, 17 September 2007 08:16:58 GMT
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