- From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:18:35 -0500
- To: Bruce Miller <bruce.miller@nist.gov>
- Cc: Neil Soiffer <NeilS@dessci.com>, "www-math@w3.org" <www-math@w3.org>
Hi Bruce,
> Indeed MathPlayer seems to be accepting it both ways
> (maybe it always did, and my memory's going),
> as does firefox, so the prefix-less way looks like the
> best solution...
I've always thought the verbose way (writing out the xmlns on
each <math> element) was best.
Among the reasons:
1. A larger class of processors can deal with it.
2. I want to view xml for documents (as opposed to EDI) as as a
category that is a subcategory of SGML. (And there continues to be
"political" resistance to the use of xml namespaces in author-level
xml document types for documents.)
3. With verbose use of xmlns and a few other conventions, it's
possible to generate xhtml+mathml document instances that require only
a couple of revisions near the top to become correct text/html
instances of html5.
4. I have a private local use sgml definition for a profiled subset
of html5, text/html serialization, as an sgml document type.
BTW, Henri Sivonen's html5 online validator is found at
http://html5.validator.nu/
-- Bill
Received on Sunday, 5 February 2012 23:21:20 UTC