On Nov 5, 2006, at 14:30, Elliotte Harold wrote:
Henri Sivonen wrote:
Personally, I think MathML is so hopelessly verbose for hand
authoring that this really shouldn't be about enabling hand
authoring MathML-in-HTML5 but about enabling MathML-in-HTML5
(perhaps generated by a future version of itex2mml or similar) to
be served through content management systems that are not built
around a SAX pipeline or an XML tree API or XSLT but are built as
tag soup systems and simply cannot guarantee well-formedness. I
mean systems like WordPress and MovableType.
Please don't confuse what these systems won't do with what they
can't do. I personally wrote a system like this that maintained
full well-formedness at all times despite TagSoup input. In fact,
that was one of the easiest parts of what it did. See
http://cafe.elharo.com/web/mokka/
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.elharo.com%
2Fweb%2Fmokka%2F&parser=xml&laxtype=yes
I think that makes my point for me.
Today's tools and libraries make it easy for anyone using anything
more advanced than a text editor and FTP to publish well-formed
documents. Tools that don't do that by default should be fixed.
In order for a non-trivial tool to produce well-formed output
consistently and reliably, the architecture of the tool needs to be
designed with this goal in mind. It is remarkably difficult to make
e.g. WordPress or MovableType emit stuff that is for sure suitable
for serving as application/xhtml+xml.
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Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
