Re: MathML 1 "interface attributes" in MathML3.

MathPlayer doesn't support any of those attributes at the current time.

Neil Soiffer
Senior Scientist
Design Science, Inc.
www.dessci.com
~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor ~




On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:43 AM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:

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> I have been asked abouta problem moving from MathML2 to MathML3 that
> "name" attribute on the math element is no longer valid. After further
> investigation I think the situation is as follows.
>
> MathML 1.0 documented some explicitly speculative attributes on math
> designed to help possible plugin architectures to render the MathML.
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> In particular the three attributes: name baseline and type.
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> These are documented in MathML _1_
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> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-**MathML/chapter7.html<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-MathML/chapter7.html>
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>> name: "Provided for scripting."
>>
>> baseline: "Ideally, embedded elements will soon be able to
>> dynamically negotiate height, width and baseline alignment with
>> browsers. However, these optional attributes are suggested as an
>> interim solution for software vendors that want to support MathML,
>> but are unable to provide dynamic resizing and alignment."
>>
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>> type: type="mime type" The type attribute assigns a MIME type to the
>> tag content. This attribute should ideally be used to invoke an
>> embedded element, such as a Java applet, plug-in or ActiveX control,
>> to render the tag content as described in the next section.
>>
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> As far as I can see these three attributes are not documented anywhere
> in the text of MathML2 however they _were_ declared in the MathML DTD so
> use of the attributes would not be flagged by a dtd based validator.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-**MathML2-20010221/appendixa.**
> html#pent_att-browif<http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-MathML2-20010221/appendixa.html#pent_att-browif>
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> In MathML3 they are not declared so use of the attributes _is_
> flagged by a validator.
>
> This change is not recorded in the change log in MathML3 for which I
> apologise, I'll fix that in the editors's draft asap.
>
> http://www.w3.org/Math/draft-**spec/appendixf.html#changes.**
> mathml2.0e-3.0<http://www.w3.org/Math/draft-spec/appendixf.html#changes.mathml2.0e-3.0>
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> If any implementations _are_ using these attributes it would be
> interesting to hear from you!
>
> If you have an existing document collection that you want to consider
> valid against MathML3 (rather than MathML2) it is simple to add these
> attributes to whatever DTD is including MathML into a larger document type.
>
> If you want to edit existing MathML2 to be valid to the standard MathML3
> DTD, then I _think_ the advice should be change name= to id= and just
> delete the baseline and type attributes on <math>, however If an
> implementation is using these attributes that advice may not be quite
> right, hence the call to implementers above...
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> David
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