[om] MathML draft Notes available for review

[Stan Devitt]

Thanks Bill,

We'll catch that in a revised draft.  There is certainly no
intent to belittle, compete or replace. The main point was
that a needed functionality of the notation - motivated by
and already present in OpenMath - was being addressed.
(This came up in the context of  round-tripping to and
from appropriate CD's.) . Also, quite apart from motivating
the expressivity of the notation on this topic, OpenMath
provides a very valuable complementary resource as a
systematic approach to a reference library of such definitions
and there is no intent to duplicate that work.


Stan Devitt

Bill Naylor wrote:

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>>http://www.w3.org/Math/Documents/Notes.
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>after a quick reading of the document:
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>"Structured types in MathML 2.0"
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>I have a comment on section 4.1
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>'Representing and Associating Types in OpenMath'
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>It seems to me that the paragraph starting
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>"With the representation ..., content MathML is as expressive as OpenMath
>for types."
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>gives the message that MathML is as good, if not better than OpenMath,
>which of course is not the point as they are not supposed to be in
>competition! Of course the definitionURL attribute should be pointing
>somewhere meaningful, and this, I understand, is a major reason for
>OpenMath (at least as far as MathML is concerned); to give target points
>for this attribute's values. I would suggest maybe a rewording of this
>paragraph which cast OpenMath in more of a supportive role to MathML.
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>cheers,
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>Bill
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