- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:28:55 +0100
- To: ian@hixie.ch
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
> Assuming that MathML is integrated into HTML, the MAthML fragments in HTML > will most definitely be the same kind of DOMs as you would get from > strictly XML MathML. The suggestions I have made regarding parsing are > purely syntactic and have no effect whatsoever on the resulting DOMs. The DOM models the internal memory structire of a browser, What passes between applications is typically the serial form. That's the essence of the definition of a markup language, that it defines a common language that can be shared between people or applications. > we get the same level of backwards compatibility either way That seems to be so obviously false I'm not sure how to respond to it. > Anything we do that puts MathML into text/html will, irrespective of any > additional things we do like allow tag inference, create a new > syntax. There is a big difference between say dropping quotes around attributes that can be automatically put back in for any tree (without any specific language knowledge, and parsing string of unmarked up text to infer some tree structure. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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