Re: Whither MathML support?

Hoping that someone will answer the questions I posed. This was 
non-responsive to my questions.

Thanks,

Daniel


On 9/7/2017 2:03 PM, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 13:56 -0400, Daniel Bennett wrote:
> [...]
>> The second question, and as a strong supporter of XML, is it possible
>> to
>> semantically represent math with XML? For example, there is no real
>> way
>> to have page and line numbers in XML as well as paragraphs that span
>> them, as this breaks nestedness.
> The usual approach involves thinking of page breaks as separations
> rather than containers and then using empty XML elements to represent
> them; the same for line divisions (except for poetry, where the lines
> are part of the content).
>
> For rhetorical overlap with structure, such as a quotation that goes
> from the middle of one paragraph to the middle of the next, a
> representation of one structure or the other as primary and using
> attributes to link together e.g. a continued quotation, is a common
> approach.
>
> The people at the Text Encoding Initiative and more generally Digital
> Humanities have been doing these things for decades, so it's a question
> of knowing where to look ;-) There've been papers on representing
> overlap in XML presented at Extreme Markup and, later, Balisage,
> conferences.
>
> Best,
>
> Liam
>

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