Of course, I understand that.
Glad to hear that you are planning on supporting once this things become an 
official standard.

thanks,

eduardo

On Feb 23, 2013, at 1:54 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote:

> On 02/22/2013 11:08 PM, Eduardo Tabacman wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I see in the page
>> 
>> http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/webhelp/media.html
>> 
>> that the way to add MathML markup in a DITA document for use with the
>> DITA Converter is to include it in a foreign element:
>> 
>> <p><foreign><mml:math  display="block"
>>   xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";>
>>   <mml:mrow>
>>     <mml:mo>{</mml:mo>
>>     <mml:mtable>
>>       <mml:mtr>
>>         <mml:mtd>
>>         ...
>>         </mml:mtd>
>>       </mml:mtr>
>>     </mml:mtable>
>>   </mml:mrow>
>> </mml:math></foreign></p>
>> 
>> 
>> Are you aware of the inclusion in the v1.3 specs for DITA of a standard
>> MathML domain? The proposed structure is not that far off from the
>> above, but specializes the <foreign> element to a <mathml> one (I don't
>> think the name is final yet), to hold MathML.
>> 
>> Are there plans to support these standards for MathML in DITA? It would
>> seem that what you have now is close, and keeping things standard should
>> be a win for everyone...
> 
> We fully agree on that. However you are not talking about a standard. For 
> now, DITA 1.3 just consists in a number of proposals. See 
> https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/FrontPage
> 
> We are committed to fully support DITA v1.3 in all our products, but not 
> before it becomes an OASIS standard.
> 
> 
>> 
>> By the way, there is a similar proposal for an SVG domain.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Eduardo Tabacman
>> Software developer
>> Design Science, Inc.
>> www.dessci.com <http://www.dessci.com/>
>> 


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