- From: Irene VATTON <Irene.Vatton@imag.fr>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:24:39 +0100
- To: emt@alpha.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk (Euromath System)
- cc: www-amaya@w3.org
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 13 Jan 1998 17:15:34 +0100." <199801131615.RAA05665@perun.dcs> > Dear Amaya developers, > > we (Euromath Support Center people from Bratislava) are interested in XML > implementation in Amaya. Would you be so kind and answer us following > questions: > > 1. Do you plan to implement full XML? That means implementation of (or > including of existing) XML document compiler and DTD compiler. Not only > implementation of particular XML applications (e.g. MathML). We plan to support specific XML DTDs like MathML and free XML documents (the XML DTD is unknown). This is not a full XML implementation. > > 2. Do you plan to extend Amaya by facility to use more fonts for display and > printing? Not only Times, Courier, Helvetica and Symbol, but all > (user-defined) appropriate fonts on server/machine? > This question is related also to CSS support. Yes. We have added in next future Amaya release the support for ISO Latin-2. > > 3. XML assume to exploit ISO/IEC 10646 character set (with UTF-8/16 encoding) > for character references. Thus, multilingualism is supported by XML. Do you > plan to support this feature of XML? This also will need to define many > different keyboard mappings and to define virtual keyboards (for Latin 1, > Latin 2, Cyrillic, Math Symbols,...). It's an important development. I don't know when the work will be done, but of course we will start the job. > > 4. Can you give us a closer description of (proposed) XML implementation in > Amaya from technical point of view? E.g. how you want to parse DTD (into S > schema; resp. also T schema saving a document into DTD coincided XML form, > or not???), which features of XML will be implemented and which will not ... I can only describe our plan for next 6 months: - support of MathML and perhaps another interesting XML DTD (to be defined very soon). In these cases, S and P schemas will be hand-written. - definition of a generic S schema and its corresponding P schema to match unknown XML tags in existing documents. - creation of an XML parser which will allow us to build pieces of documents according to one of the three XML structure (MathML, XX and GENERIC). - a piece of code which will allow us to generate XML documents. I'm not sure we will use a T schema for that. > > 5. What time horizon do you have for XML implementation in Amaya? What is > the current status of this work? > We don't have precise plan after the next 6 months. Many things can be changed. For example, we hope that we will have a language to describe XML element layout at that time. > > Answers to all above questions are VERY IMPORTANT for us! > > We want to re-implement the Euromath System (SGML structural editor) into > the Thot Library and to extend the Thot Editor. We support SGML now, and XML > implementation placed into the "future" SW platform of Euromath is essential > for the re-implementation process. > > There is of course also opportunity to extend features of Amaya and Thot > Library. Some work on XML implementation and other functional extensions of > Amaya can be done by our team. Of course, there is necessity to co-operate > with you. But we need to know, what to do and how - we need to plan our work. > That was the main reason for this e-mail. This is a good news. We need expertise in fonts or symbols management or DTD compilers. > > Thank you in advance, > > Radovan Cervenka. > > > P.S. I've used www-amaya@w3.org because I did not find another e-mail > contact on Amaya developer team. Is there any other, more appropriate? > > *************************************************** > * Euromath Support Center * > * Department of Computer Science * > * Faculty of Mathematics and Physics * > * Comenius University * > * Mlynska dolina * > * 842 15 Bratislava * > * Slovak Republic * > * * > * Tel: +421-7-654 26 635 Fax: +421-7-654 27 041 * > * e-mail: emt@fmph.uniba.sk * > * http://www.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/~emt * > ************************************************** > Irene.
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