- From: Andrew Miller <ak.miller@auckland.ac.nz>
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:46:39 +1300
- To: www-math@w3.org
Note: I sent this mail to the list previously, but it was not sent back to me
and did not appear in the archives, so I am resending it. Sorry if you get this
twice.
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Hi all,
The MathML2 specification defines symbolName as follows:
"symbolName of type DOMString, readonly
A string giving the name of the MathML element represented. This is a
convenience attribute only; accessing it should be synonymous with accessing
the Element::tagName attribute."
This seems wrong, because tagName is equivalent to Node::qualifiedName for
elements with namespaces. If you use a predefined symbol like this:
<mathml:eq/> then the symbolName will be "mathml:eq", when it really should
just be "eq". Perhaps it should be an alias for Element::localName (or better
yet, to Node::localName, unless it is null, in which case it is an alias to
Element::tagName).
Best regards,
Andrew Miller
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