- From: Jon Noring <jon@noring.name>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 12:51:45 -0600
- To: www-math@w3.org
Dr. Robert Miner wrote: > I've been looking into the status on the note in preparation on mixing > MathML and SVG. It isn't ready to be circulated yet, though your > inquiries have inspired another flurry of effort, and hopefully we > will be able to publish it soon. However, I can give you a short > version. > > There are three obvious use cases: > > MathML island in SVG > SVG island in MathML > non-hierarchical mixing of both MathML and SVG > > The first two cases lend themselves to the existing extension > mechanisms on MathML and SVG. When you have a well-defined, > self-contained block of MathML that you need to include in SVG > (e.g. to label a graph with an equation), the foreignObject tag is > probably the right way to go. I make no claims that the following > example is technically correct, but this gives the idea: Thanks, Robert. With the help of the MathML and SVG mavens, I am slowly coming up to speed on the global details of their implementation in OpenReader. When I first asked how islands (or fragments) of SVG and MathML are best implemented within XHTML 1.1 documents, I was assuming the simple case of either a purely SVG fragment, or a purely MathML fragment, embedded within XHTML. I was not thinking about how SVG may contain MathML and viceversa (and either hierarchically or mixed), which adds a lot of complication to matters. Add to this that fragments of XHTML can also be embedded with SVG (and I suppose in MathML as well), so things get very interesting. Thanks again. Jon Noring OpenReader
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