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Re: [Texmacs-dev] Standart compliance in HTML export
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david |
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Re: [Texmacs-dev] Standart compliance in HTML export |
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Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:47:02 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:21:04PM +0100, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
>
> I rather propose to make it possible to customize
> the behaviour of the output filters in the user preferences.
> This gives optimal flexibility, which is also needed because
> "standards" are a very fuzzy concept anyway in the Html and *ml world.
That does not seem fuzzy to me. There are W3C recommandations (i.e.
"the standard") and a number of more or less "common" applications
(e.g. RDF) and (mis)features (e.g. "wild" HTML).
Well... that is clean until the W3C start including restricted
patented technology in its recommandations.
> I do not see very well how we can make use of CSS2 yet...
In the context of HTML-4, one could use 'style' tags to embbed style
information in the document (not very structural though). It is also
possible to use the head/style element to embed a stylesheet inside a
document, the conversion would then handle this in a similar way it
handles the LaTeX preamble.
> I propose to use Html 4 plus MathML for mathematics.
> If certain tags have natural translations in proprietary
> extensions, then this should become optional.
Excuse me if I have missed something.
AFAIK HTML4+MathML is *not* an option. If you want to use MathML, you
have to use XHTML1.1+MathML, which is significantly different from
HTML4 because there must be a support for namespaces. Actually, that
would be my preferred solution.
Then we can handle extensions properly. For example we could use a
TeXmacs namespace (e.g. 'www.texmacs.org/xhtml-ext/1.0', as 'tm'
prefix) to include tags like tm:multicol.
So I will go for XHTML1.1+MathML+extensions.
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