You can only convey --at best-- the intersection of information content
between CAS-1 and CAS-2 and MathML by using MathML.
MathML is currently a way of defining a display.
For simple things this works. If everyone's browser
supports MathML display (like current Netscape), then
MathML display is ok, but for small expressions only.
MathML may be useful, but it is not likely to be a really
good total solution.
RJF
C Y wrote:
> --- Michael Reimpell <M.Reimpell@tu-bs.de> wrote:
>
>
>>XML makes it easy for a computer to handle data, and ensure that the
>>data structure is unambiguous also it is free and
>>platform-independent. Especially with MathML we would ensure
>>possibilities to import and export to every
>>serious mathematical application.
>
>
> Um. I don't think using MathML will ensure we can export and import to
> other CAS with any success. Dr. Fateman can probably point out the
> weaknesses better than I, but I suspect MathML will mainly be useful as
> a tool to allow export of Maxima documents in a format suitable for web
> browsers. XML we might be able to use as a native document storage
> method, depending on how that works out, but that will all need to be
> discussed when the time comes.
>
> CY
>
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