Changes to frontmatter.
Changes to Chapter 1 Introduction.
Additional markup for bibliographic references in Section 1.3 The Role of MathML on the Web and Section 1.2.4 Design Goals of MathML.
Changes to Section 2.1 MathML Overview.
Modify description of namespace declarations in Section 2.2 MathML in a Document.
Modify description of entity usage in Section 2.3.1 Presentation Examples.
Correct the MathML and default rendering of quatratic formula example in Section 2.3.2 Content Examples.
Wording changes in Section 2.4.5 Attributes Shared by all MathML Elements.
Changes to Chapter 3 Presentation Markup.
Delete incorrect reference to default em units in Section 3.2.5.7.5 Spacing around an operator.
Delete references to Negative Space Characters in Section 3.2.6 Text (mtext) and Section 3.3.4 Style Change (mstyle).
Editorial changes to the wording in Section 3.2.8 String Literal (ms).
Correct description of
lspace value in
Section 3.3.6 Adjust Space Around Content
(mpadded).
Add warning that attempts to render outside the bounding box of the MathML expression will give implemetation specific results in Section 3.3.6 Adjust Space Around Content (mpadded).
Modify text to match example and refer to over brace rather than over bar in Section 3.4.5 Overscript (mover).
Correct description of
displaystyle in
Section 3.3.2 Fractions (mfrac) (may be set on
mtable).
Extend the description of Section 3.3.9 Enclose Expression Inside Notation (menclose) to clarify that the list of notations is open-ended, and extend the example list to include boxes and strikeouts of various forms.
The example in this section omitted units in the
columnspacing and
rowspacing attributes.
Correct the example MathML in Section 3.5.1 Table or Matrix (mtable).
Correct the description of
minlabelspacing
and include
mlabeledtr in list of elements with inferred
mrows in Section 3.5.5 Alignment Markers.
Clarify
rowspan and
columnspan must be
positive integers in Section 3.5.4.2 Attributes.
Correct the description the
linebreak attribute in
Section 3.2.7 Space (mspace).
Editorial changes to the text in Section 3.1.6 Summary of Presentation Elements, Section 3.2.1.1 Alphanumeric symbol characters, Section 3.2.2 Mathematics style attributes common to token elements, Section 3.2.2.2 Color-related attributes, Section 3.2.9 Accessing glyphs for characters from MathML (mglyph), Section 3.4.3 Subscript-superscript Pair (msubsup), Section 3.4.6 Underscript-overscript Pair (munderover), and Section 3.4.7 Prescripts and Tensor Indices (mmultiscripts).
Clarification that the
fontfamily attribute
of
mglyph is not deprecated
in Section 3.2.2.1 Deprecated style attributes on token
elements.
Editorial changes to the description of MathML conformance, and deletion of the non normative and unsupported menu action type in Section 3.6.1 Bind Action to Sub-Expression (maction).
Addition of a tail to the image for U+2910, and swapping the images for the lowercase phi variants, U+03D5 and U+03C6.
Changes to Chapter 4 Content Markup.
Add comment about use of
semantics in
Section 4.2.1 Overview of Syntax and Usage.
Modify description of the
definitionURL attribute in
Section 4.2.1.4 Explicitly defined functions and operators,
Section 4.2.2 Containers
to be consistent with the DTD with regard to the
type attribute.
Modify description of the
type attribute in
Section 4.2.1 Overview of Syntax and Usage.
Add clarifying comments on the attributes allowed on
declare and give new extended example in
Section 4.4.2.8 Declare (declare).
Editorial correction to text in Section 4.4.6.3 Union (union) and Section 4.4.6.8 Proper Subset (prsubset).
New text clarifying the use of
tendsto in
Section 4.4.7.4 Tends To (tendsto).
Clarifying the use of
definitionURL and
encoding attributes with
annotation in
Section 4.4.11.1 Annotation (annotation) and Section 4.4.11.2 Semantics (semantics).
New text highlighting the fact that
vector may be
rendered either horizontally or vertically in
Section 4.4.10.1 Vector (vector).
The descriptions of the "scientific, or e notation" (1.234e5) in
Section 4.3.2.9
type, Section 4.4.1.2 Identifier (ci) and
Appendices C and D became inconsistent in the final
draft of MathML2. The older names float and floating-point remained, and the
description of type="e-notation" in Chapter 4 (but not Appendix C)
described its use with the example 1.234 e 5
where e was used as a separator rather than the
sep element
Correct the example MathML in Section 4.3.3.2 General Attributes.
Add note to Section 4.4.3.17 Universal quantifier (forall) observing that the mathematical expressions in the examples are false.
Clarify that the order of child elements of
bvar
is not signifcant in Section 4.4.5.6 Bound variable (bvar).
Correct the example of OpenMath usage in in Section 4.4.11.3 XML-based annotation (annotation-xml), Section 4.2.5 Conditions, and Section 4.4.1.3 Externally defined symbol (csymbol).
Clarification on the use of bound variables in in Section 4.2.2.2 Constructors, Section 4.2.3.2 Operators taking Qualifiers, Section 4.4.2.4 Interval (interval), Section 4.4.2.9 Lambda (lambda), Section 4.4.5.1 Integral (int), and Section 4.4.5.2 Differentiation (diff).
Clarification of the examples of the deprecated
fn
element in Section 4.4 The Content Markup Elements,
Section 4.4.2.1 Apply (apply), and
Section 4.4.2.3 Function (fn).
Clarification that
piecewice may be used with no
piece children in Section 4.4.2.16 Piecewise declaration
(piecewise, piece,
otherwise)
.
Use the MathML2
pi element in the example in Section 4.4.4.8 Approximately (approx).
Modify example of the "constant" type in Section 4.4.1.1 Number (cn).
Expand and clarify the use of qualifier elements such as
bvar in Section 4.2.1.8 The use of qualifier elements.
Delete misleading references to
declare in
bvar in Section 4.2.3 Functions, Operators and Qualifiers and Section 4.2.4 Relations.
Clarify the description of the
condition element in
Section 4.4.2.7 Condition (condition), especially its relationship to
domainofapplication.
Make explict that
domainofapplication is a qualifier
element in Section 4.4.2.15 Domain of Application (domainofapplication)
Clarify the use of the
set and
condition
elements to specify a set as a range of a function over a given domain
in Section 4.4.6.1 Set (set) (and similarly in Section 4.4.6.2 List (list)).
Clarify the description of the use of
domainofapplication with
sum
in Section 4.4.7.1 Sum (sum) and Section 4.4.7.2 Product (product).
Show the full equation, not just the left hand side, in the example rendering in Section 4.4.10.8 Scalar product (scalarproduct).
Note
fn is deprecated
in Section 4.2.1.8 The use of qualifier elements.
Editorial changes in Section 4.2 Content Element Usage Guide.
Deletion of the stated restriction that the element may only
appear as a child of
apply or
reln
in Section 4.4.3.4 Maximum and minimum (max,
min).
Clarify that qualifiers may be used with all n-ary operators in [n-ary operators].
Clarification of the use of qualifier elements with
csymbol and
ci
in [csymbol and ci].
Clarification of the use of qualifier elements in in Section 4.4.2.10 Function composition (compose), Section 4.4.3.6 Addition (plus), Section 4.4.3.9 Multiplication (times), Section 4.4.6.13 Cartesian product (cartesianproduct), Section 4.4.3.11 Greatest common divisor (gcd), Section 4.4.3.12 And (and), Section 4.4.3.13 Or (or), Section 4.4.3.14 Exclusive Or (xor), Section 4.4.3.18 Existential quantifier (exists), Section 4.4.4.1 Equals (eq), Section 4.4.4.3 Greater than (gt), Section 4.4.4.4 Less Than (lt), Section 4.4.4.5 Greater Than or Equal (geq), Section 4.4.4.6 Less Than or Equal (leq), Section 4.4.4.7 Equivalent (equivalent), Section 4.4.3.24 Lowest common multiple (lcm).
Additional example, showing the use of
bvar
in Section 4.4.6.7 Subset (subset).
Alternative renderings using nabla added in Section 4.4.5.8 Divergence (divergence), Section 4.4.5.9 Gradient (grad) and Section 4.4.5.10 Curl (curl).
Editorial changes to clarify the allowed arguments in Section 4.4.6.4 Intersect (intersect).
Correct the example renderings in Section 4.4.6.9 Not Subset (notsubset) and Section 4.4.6.10 Not Proper Subset (notprsubset).
Editorial additions clarifying the intended
use of
encoding in
Section 4.3 Content Element Attributes.
Correct the example rendering in Section 4.4.10.9 Outer product (outerproduct).
Changes to Chapter 5 Combining Presentation and Content Markup.
Editorial corrections to text in Section 5.2 Mixed Markup.
Correct the complexity of parallel markup given in Section 5.3 Parallel Markup to O(n log n).
Modify the example rendering image to include both sides of the equivalence expression in Section 5.2.1 Reasons to Mix Markup.
Add bibiographic reference to the OpenMath Standard in Section 5.2.1 Reasons to Mix Markup.
Correct the example MathML in Section 5.4.3 Style Sheets for Extensions.
Changes to Chapter 6 Characters, Entities and Fonts.
Editorial changes to Chapter 6 Characters, Entities and Fonts, especially Section 6.1 Introduction.
Delete references to (deprecated) negative and other spacing characters in the table in Section 6.2.4 Non-Marking Characters.
Delete reference to possible Unicode characters for Boolean values as these were not in the final set of characters added at Unicode 3.2, Section 6.3.1 Special Constants.
Some changes in Section 6.3.4 Negated Mathematical Characters to document the current usage of combining characters which have been brought into line with the final versions of Unicode 3.2.
Changes to Section 6.2 MathML Characters, Section 6.2.1 Unicode Character Data, Section 6.2.3 Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols Characters, Section 6.3.2 Character Tables (ASCII format), Section 6.3.3 Tables arranged by Unicode block, Section 6.3.5 Variant Mathematical Characters, Section 6.3.6 Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols and Section 6.4.4 Status of Character Encodings, to reflect Unicode 3.1 and 3.2 which were both released after the first edition of MathML 2.0.
Editorial changes to the description of
mglyph in
Section 6.2.2 Special Characters Not in Unicode.
Changes to Chapter 7 The MathML Interface.
Deleted reference to non-conforming namespace behavior in some existing systems in Section 7.1.1 MathML and Namespaces.
Editorial changes to Section 7.1.2 The Top-Level math Element.
Change reference to XLink which is now a W3C Recommendation, Section 7.1.4 Mixing and Linking MathML and HTML.
New section, Section 7.1.5 MathML and Graphical Markup giving an example integrating with SVG.
Additional markup for bibliographic references in Section 7.2.3 Attributes for unspecified data.
Editorial changes to description of MathML processors in Section 7.2 Conformance.
New section describing (existing) extension mechanisms in MathML 2, Section 7.2.1.3 MathML 2.0 Extension Mechanisms and Conformance.
Editorial changes to use consistent terminology to describe conformance criteria for MathML processors in Section 7.2.1.1 MathML Test Suite and Validator, Section 7.2.1.2 Deprecated MathML 1.x Features, Section 7.2.2 Handling of Errors, and Section 7.3 Future Extensions.
Changes to Appendix A Parsing MathML.
New section, Section A.1 Use of MathML as Well-Formed XML describing use without a DTD.
The location of the MathML DTDs described in Section A.2.1 DOCTYPE declaration for MathML and Section A.2.3 MathML as a DTD Module are now in the Math Working group area rather than distributed with this Recommendation.
New sections descriping parameterisation possibilities for the DTD: Section A.2.2.1 Namespace Prefix and Section A.2.2.2 Additional DTD Checking.
In Section A.2.4 SGML, the link to the W3C Note on SGML and XML has been corrected and changed to a bibliography reference.
The MathML DTD as shown in Section A.2.5 The MathML DTD Incorporates several corrections as listed in the MathML 2.0 Errata document, or listed in the change log at the end of the DTD.
New section, Section A.3 Using the MathML XML Schema describing the use of the W3C XML Schema for MathML.
Changes to Appendix B Content Markup Validation Grammar.
Many corrections, and new display format for the productions given in the grammar for Content Markup in Appendix B Content Markup Validation Grammar.
Changes to Appendix C Content Element Definitions.
Many corrections to the MathML Examples in cn , ci , interval , factorial , rem , root , gcd , divide , plus , equivalent , partialdiff , divergence , grad , limit , moment , selector , rationals , exponentiale , imaginaryi , reln , condition , lambda , compose , codomain , image , domainofapplication , piecewise , piece , quotient , min , forall , int , max , minus , times , eq , lowlimit , abs , lcm , gt , lt , geq , leq , lowlimit , uplimit , bvar , degree , curl , set , list , union , intersect , subset , prsubset , sum , product , exp , ln , log , sin , cos , tan , sec , csc , cot , sinh , cosh , tanh , sech , csch , coth , arcsin , arccos , arctan , arccosh , arccot , arccoth , arccsc , arccsch , arcsec , arcsech , arcsinh , arctanh , momentabout , vector , matrix , transpose , reals , power , exists , floor , ceiling , approx , true , false , pi , eulergamma , otherwise .
Clarify the use of
definitionURL
in Section C.1 About Content Markup Elements.
Changes to Appendix D Document Object Model for MathML.
Corrections to the following interfaces: MathMLPresentationToken, MathMLContentToken, MathMLSpaceElement, MathMLOperatorElement, MathMLStyleElement, MathMLFencedElement, MathMLFractionElement, MathMLContentElement, MathMLIntervalElement, MathMLApplyElement, MathMLEncloseElement, MathMLActionElement, MathMLTableRowElement, MathMLCnElement, MathMLCiElement, MathMLTendsToElement.
Modification of the description of
tendsto in Section D.2.2 Table of Elements and MathML DOM Representations.
Changes to Appendix F Operator Dictionary.
Blank lines in Section F.5 Operator dictionary entries used in the inferred mrow grouping algorithm were omitted. They have been restored based on the groupings in MathML 1.01.
Some entity names in Section F.5 Operator dictionary entries have been corrected and/or deleted to match the names in the MathML DTD.
Changes to Appendix I Working Group Membership and Acknowledgments.
Document changes in Working Group membership in Section I.1 The Math Working Group Membership.
Editorial changes in Section I.2 Acknowledgments.
Changes to Appendix J Changes.
New section Section J.1 Changes between MathML 2.0 and MathML 2.0 Second Edition describing changes in the Second Edition.
Minor edits to the description of the earlier changes in Section J.2 Changes between MathML 1.01 and MathML 2.0.
Changes to Appendix K References.
Added and updated many entries: [Behaviors], [CSS1], [CSS2], [DOM], [HTML4], [MathML1], [MathML2], [Modularization], [Namespaces], [RFC2045], [RFC2046], [sgml-xml], [SVG1.1], [XHTML], [XHTML-MathML-SVG], [XLink], [XML], [XMLSchemas], [XPath], [XPointer], [XSLT], [UAX15].
Changes to Appendix L Index.
New Appendix Appendix L Index incorporating Section L.1 MathML Elements and Section L.2 MathML Attributes
changes to Chapter 1 Introduction
rewritten to reflect developments since publication of the MathML 1.0 Recommendation [MathML1], for example XML, XSL, CSS and schemas
changes to Chapter 2 MathML Fundamentals
rewritten to reflect developments since publication of the MathML 1.0 Recommendation [MathML1], for example XML, XSL, CSS and schemas
examples were rewritten to reflect good MathML 2.0 practice
descriptions of attribute values were updated to reflect MathML 2.0
changes to Chapter 3 Presentation Markup
introduced a new section on bidirectional layout of mathematics
introduced new mathematics style attributes
mathvariant,
mathsize,
mathweight, and
mathcolor on token elements, and deprecated the
use of
fontfamily,
fontsize,
fontweight,
fontstyle and
color.
introduced new elements mglyph, menclose and mlabeledtr and updated related text accordingly
added attributes beveled, numalign and denomalign to mfrac
added a linebreaking attribute to mspace
required mtr and mtd elements to be explicit instead of allowing them to be inferred.
changes to Chapter 4 Content Markup
deprecated the use of reln and fn and changed the use of apply accordingly
introduced csymbol and added a discussion about the relation to the deprecated fn element
introduced new content elements domain, codomain, image, domainofapplication, arg, real, imaginary, lcm, floor, ceiling, equivalent, approx, divergence, grad, curl, laplacian, card, cartesianproduct, momentabout, vectorproduct, scalarproduct, outerproduct, integers, reals, rationals, naturalnumbers, complexes, primes, exponentiale, imaginaryi, notanumber, true, false, emptyset, pi, eulergamma, infinity, piecewise, piece and otherwise
corrected examples and fixed typos
expanded the attribute definitionURL to allow a URL or a URI as a value
clarified the use of presentation markup inside cn
made use of encoding attribute more uniform
changed description of the use of bvar in combination with min and max
changes to Chapter 5 Combining Presentation and Content Markup
added description of content-faithful transformation
updated examples to reflect MathML 2.0
define list of content that can appear in presentation
add attribute xref for cross-referencing purposes
added examples using XLink and namespaces
make use of encoding attribute more uniform
miscellaneous typographical corrections
changes to Chapter 6 Characters, Entities and Fonts
added a new section describing the methods of using Unicode data within MathML
added a new section describing the correspondence between
Math Alphabet characters and the
mathvariant
attribute
completely revised and reformatted the MathML character tables to reflect changes in Unicode since MathML 1.01
changes to Chapter 7 The MathML Interface
reworked the text in acknowledgement of the fact that the top-level and interface elements for MathML are now in practice the same
rewrote the text about linking to reflect changes in XLink since MathML 1.01
revised material about interactions with embedded renderers to reflect the current state of DOM implementation
added a definition of deprecated features in MathML 2
updated the text to reflect the use of namespaces and the introduction of XHTML. 2.0
added a new section on the appropriate use of CSS and the new mathematics style attributes in rendering environments with support CSS
changes to Chapter 8 Document Object Model for MathML
this is a completely new chapter
changes to Appendix A Parsing MathML
renamed attribute occurence to occurrence
added global attribute xref
add links to tables for each entity set
changes to Appendix B Content Markup Validation Grammar
Updated to reflect MathML 2.0.
changes to Appendix C Content Element Definitions
completely rewritten to reflect changes in MathML 2.0
changes to Appendix F Operator Dictionary
entries in operator dictionary are parametrized
operator dictionary has become a non-normative part of the specification
new entries were added to operator dictionary
changes to Appendix D Document Object Model for MathML
this is a completely new appendix, containing the IDL definitions
changes to Appendix H Glossary
added entries for XSL, XSLT and XSL FO
changes to Appendix I Working Group Membership and Acknowledgments
all members of first and second Math Working Group are listed
changes to Appendix J Changes
completely new appendix, based on the logs obtained from CVS
changes to Appendix K References
added and updated many entries
general changes
text of specification now in XML form, with HTML and XHTML rendering by means of XSLT, and PDF rendering by means of XSLT and TEX
fixed errors in spelling and notation
normative examples of formulas are images, with a LaTEX equivalent
non-normative examples of formulas are HTML constructions wherever possible
improved cross-referencing
