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From: Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 20:05:15 +0000
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On 2013-06-06, Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Robert, what do you mean by 'content and presentation' ?
There are two flavors of MathML -- presentation MathML represents
expressions in terms of display operators (e.g. subscript and
superscript) while content MathML is a "mathematical" representation
(e.g. index and exponent). Content MathML is pretty much like a
reexpression of Maxima's internal representation (op + args) in XML.
Ok, I see. Thanks.
It is annoying that MathML is based on XML instead of Lisp, since
XML is pretty starkly inferior in many ways, but after complaining
about XML for some years, I got on the bandwagon -- if you can't
beat 'em, join 'em.
Worse is better, yes?
(pace http://naggum.no/worse-is-better.html)
Leo