- From: Neil Soiffer <soiffer@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 21:51:16 -0700
- To: Deyan Ginev <deyan.ginev@gmail.com>
- Cc: "www-math@w3.org" <www-math@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAESRWkAbgkgiQvXABb-sSOH9YLXrZV21hKR1nk6e+HmPM-fgoA@mail.gmail.com>
The comments are about only allowing for mtext, but when I used mtext, the
validator failed it in the same way. I don't think the comments reflect the
reality of either MathML or what is implemented.
Neil
On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM Deyan Ginev <deyan.ginev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> If I'm scanning their code correctly, there is a 2010 rationale for that
> decision:
>
> https://github.com/validator/validator/blob/6138b0facb22bcbe28ee86d716f340cd7fb1e723/schema/.drivers/xhtml5-svg-mathml.rnc#L35-L38
>
> Rationale at:
> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9859#c8
>
> Likely the validator maintainer needs to be convinced the situation is
> changed in 2025 - which may be easier with MathML Core in CR.
>
> Greetings,
> Deyan
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM Neil Soiffer <soiffer@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Someone told me that the W3C validator refused to accept <input> inside
>> of leaf elements. I tried it with both <mi> and <mtext> -- the example
>> below uses <mi>. The page seemed to work fine in Chrome and Firefox.
>>
>> Did I do something wrong? If not, is there anything we can do to get the
>> validator fixed?
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>
>> ==================
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE html>
>> <html lang="en">
>> <head>
>> <meta charset="UTF-8">
>> <title>Input element in MathML</title>
>> <script type="module">
>> import { _MathTransforms } from '
>> https://github.com/w3c/mathml-polyfills/common/math-transforms.js'
>> import 'https://github.com/w3c/mathml-polyfills/menclose.js'
>> document.head.appendChild ( _MathTransforms.getCSSStyleSheet() );
>>
>> window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
>> _MathTransforms.transform(document.body)
>> })
>> </script>
>> </head>
>>
>> <body>
>> <h1>Input Field in MathML</h1>
>> <p>Adding the 'input' element breaks parsing in the W3C validator</p>
>> <math display='block'>
>> <mrow>
>> <mn>3</mn><mo>+</mo><mn>4</mn><mo>=</mo>
>> <menclose notation="box"><mi><input type="text" size="2" id="answer"
>> name="answer/></mi></menclose>
>> </mrow>
>> </math>
>> </body>
>>
>> </html>
>>
>>
>>
Received on Thursday, 10 April 2025 04:51:37 UTC