- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:17:02 GMT
- To: eng10875@nus.edu.sg
- Cc: www-math@w3.org
> if now i have a MathML, and how can i know how the Maths Expression is > being represented inside?? Most applications that import MathML will translate it into their internal format. The MathML Recommendation only specifies the XML representation of the expression. (It also specifies an extended DOM that may be used to manipulate a MathML expression, but this is optimised for manipulating the XML tree resulting from the MathML, and an application that is going to compute with the expression is likely to use a different internal structure, specific to that application.) Thus in general, the MathML Recommendation itself does not answer your question, however many computer algebra systems (for example) can import MathML, and you would need to look to the documentation of those systems to see how they represent any given MathML expression internally. This answer may not be that helpful (sorry) and it may be that I misunderstood your question, feel free to ask again. In particular I was not sure when you said "i would like to convert it to Maths Expression;" whether you had any explict format in mind for the "Maths Expression" or whether you meant any internal format used by any application. (I assumed the latter here). David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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