- From: <juanrgonzaleza@canonicalscience.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:16:16 -0800 (PST)
- To: <www-math@w3.org>
Bruce Miller wrote: > [snip] > The point is that content mathml deals with what you might call > the parse tree, and having the operator in a standard position (the first), > makes life _vastly_ simpler. XML just happens to be a handy way > to encode trees. > Just let me add two annotations. i) Prefix notations make life _vastly_ simpler for computers but _vastly_ difficult for authors. ii) XML is a handy (but far from optimized) way to encode certain subclass of trees: hierarchical ones. The codification of non-hierarchical trees via XML is so nightmare that people (including first-class citizens from the w3c XML world) have developed alternatives to XML which are being used for solving practical problems: e.g. in the humanities field. I myself am a find serious problem to codify certain quantum chemical trees via XML. I am working in an alternative. > -- > bruce.miller@nist.gov > http://math.nist.gov/~BMiller/ Juan R. Center for CANONICAL |SCIENCE)
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