- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:30:20 GMT
- To: r.muetzelfeldt@ed.ac.uk
- Cc: www-math@w3.org
> Not very pretty, but is this the best solution to the problem? perhaps, but two alternatives you decide that they are really compound terms and not variables at all, and so have something like <apply> <csymbol>variable-constructor</apply> <csymbol>temperature</csymbol> <csymbol>sea_level</csymbol> </apply> or some such, there are very few places in mathml where you could use a ci identifier that you couldn't use such an apply construct. a second alternative if you don't want to inline the compund construction at every use is to use <csymbol definitionurl="somewhere where you define these things">temperature_at_sea_level</csymbol> In MathML3 (draft) we are trying to make it easier to levarage OpenMath CDs as a format in which to make such definitions, see http://svn.openmath.org eg http://svn.openmath.org/OpenMath3/cd/MathML/arith1.xhtml and to reference such things with <csymbol cd="my-temp-constructs">temperature_at_sea_level</csymbol> with a definition of temperature_at_sea_level in the my-temp-constructs Content Dictionary. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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