Oh wonder!
Jakarta project now has a math project!
That's great! Indeed, the justification to have such a project are quite valid!
Dare I add at least one pointer on the list of Developers Guide references ? http://www.openmath.org/
Yes, it should be added
The OpenMath society has been working on an XML-based encoding for mathematical objects, since quite a long time (about ten years), the encoding is light and extensible.
OpenMath also comes with a growing set of mathematical symbols which are well defined and have managed to avoid an amount of ambiguities that has appreared, for example, in MathML content or the Handbook of special functions.
It would be quite easy to write a plug that would allow mathematical objects or operations to be expressed in this language (for which editors, input-syntaxes, and presentation-processes exist)...
Any thoughts ?
Paul
Yes, Dreams... ;-) I've actually had thoughts about a Jelly based MathML/OpenMath taglibrary which would evaluate MathML/OpenMath XML fragments, generating a series of Java Objects representing the equation expressed in the syntax. Ideally, if a functional model was applied properly, such "equations" could be "evaluated" to return values.
-Mark
-- Mark Diggory Software Developer Harvard MIT Data Center http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
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