[whatwg] MathML in non-XML documents
Tab Atkins Jr.
jackalmage at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 10:19:28 PDT 2009
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Adam Langley<agl at chromium.org> wrote:
> >From my reading of the spec, it appears that MathML embedded in HTML
> documents (not just XHTML) is intended to work?
> (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#mathml)
>
> I.e. something like the following snippet should render as math?
>
> <body>
> <math>
> <msup>
> <mi>x</mi>
> <mn>2</mn>
> </msup>
> </math>
> </body>
>
> Is my interpretation correct? (Note, I'm not questioning browser
> support for the above, which I believe is non-existent).
Yup, MathML (and SVG, for that matter) are intended to be usable in
HTML documents, not just XHTML. That's why we have implicit
namespacing and such.
~TJ
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