H Changes (Non-Normative)

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0
G Working Group Membership (Non-normative)
H Changes (Non-normative)
I References (Non-normative)

This appendix summarises the changes with respect to the preceding version (1.01) of the MathML Specification.

• changes to chapter 1 [Introduction] (upto revision 1.12)
  • none
• changes to chapter 2 [MathML Fundamentals] (upto revision 1.17)
  • added reference to XML recommendation
  • removed error in description of allowed character in attribute values
• changes to chapter 3 [Presentation Markup] (upto revision 1.28)
  • the attribute definitionURL can have a URL or a URI as value
  • added sections about menclose and meqno
  • added attributes beveled, numalign and denomalign to mfrac, and updated text accordingly
  • made sure examples are correct, and fixed several typos
  • added sections on mchar and mglyph
  • adjusted description of mstyle and mglyph
  • added examples for actuarial notation and long division
• changes to chapter 4 [Content Markup] (upto revision 1.25)
  • discuss changed use of apply, and deprecation of reln
  • introduce csymbol and discuss the relation with fn
  • introduce the new category of elementary classifical functions
  • introduce new content elements arg, real, imaginary, equivalent, approx, divergence, grad, curl, laplacian, size, vectorproduct, scalarproduct and outerproduct
  • made sure examples are correct, and fixed several typos
  • the attribute definitionURL can have a URL or a URI as value
  • revised some of the default renderings
  • described the use of presentation markup inside cn
  • modified the example for root to indicate that the rendering with a radical sign is for integer degrees only
  • default rendering of not made to match example markup
  • added minus to the row for unary arithmetic in the table in section 4.2.3
• changes to chapter 5 [Combining Presentation and Content Markup] (upto revision 1.17)
  • added description of content-faithful transformation
  • use csymbol and not fn in examples
  • define list of content that can appear in presentation
  • add attribute xref for cross-referencing purposes
  • made sure examples are correct, and fixed several typos
  • added abrief description of the elements OMA, OMS and OMV
• changes to chapter 6 [Entities, Characters and Fonts] (upto revision 1.8)
  • none
• changes to chapter 7 [The MathML Interface] (upto revision 1.19)
  • rewrote introductory text in section 7.2 and all text of section 7.2.1
  • rewrote many statements in future tense to present or past tense
  • 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 in accordance with the new XLink draft
  • revisited the material about interactions with embedded renderers to reflect the current state of DOM implementation
  • made sure examples are correct, and fixed several typos
• changes to chapter 8 [Document Object Model for MathML] (upto revision 1.3)
  • this is a completely new chapter
  • moved IDL definitions to a new, non-normative appendix
• changes to appendix A [Parsing MathML] (upto revision 1.14)
  • 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] (upto revision 1.6)
  • none
• changes to appendix C [Content Element Definitions] (upto revision 1.10)
  • none
• changes to appendix D [Operator Dictionary] (upto revision 1.13)
  • entries in operator dictionary are parametrized
  • operator dictionary has become non-normative part of the specification
• changes to appendix E [Document Object Model for MathML] (upto revision 1.13)
  • this is a completely new appendix, containing the IDL definitions that used to be in chapter 8
• changes to appendix F [Glossary] (upto revision 1.13)
  • added entries for XSL, XSLT and XSL FO
• changes to appendix G [Working Group Membership] (upto revision 1.11)
  • all members of first and second Math working group are listed
  • new addresses for Maple
  • removed `Publishers' from affiliation of NP
• changes to appendix H [Changes] (upto revision 1.13)
  • completely new appendix, based on the logs obtained from CVS
• changes to appendix I [References] (upto revision 1.8)
  • added entry for XML recommendation
  • added entry for other W3C documents
  • changed first author of reference 5 to `Chaundy'
• 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 T_EX
  • fixed errors in spelling and notation
  • non-normative formula images replaced by HTML equivalents where possible
  • improved cross-referencing