- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:11:53 +0100
- To: ajvincent@juno.com
- Cc: www-math@w3.org
It would be possible to derive an SGML rather than XML based DTD for MathML (and so use SGML syntax such as <log> rather than <log/> ) and then use that it the SGML based HTML DTD but a) I don't think any MathML system (including Mozilla's renderer) would understand the resulting markup unless it was first converted to XML and b) I don't think anyone has yet made such a DTD. (I thought at one time that such a DTD might be useful for DocBook or TEI integration but both those languages moved towards XML so the necessity of an SGML compatible DTD version seemed to go away) Of course some systems do have a notion of "xml islands" within an html document but I don't know whether it's really possible to build any system that conforms to any standards that uses such a device. It may be possible to build an SGML declaration that allows the use of SGML-notation empty elements (<br> <hr>) in some parts of the document and XML notation empty elements (<log/> <sin/> elsewhere) but I haven't seen anyone attempt this. Google led me to http://daniel.glazman.free.fr/weblog/newarchive/2003_05_04_glazblogarc.html#s93853368 which suggests that xhtml support in composer might be in the pipeline, this would be the best solution, rather than mathml-in-html, I think. 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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