On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 06:03:10PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > [XML gibberish]
Believe it or not: I like it. And while we are at it: My current day time job surprisingly *cough* developed into a direction *cough* where it involved displaying and editing certain primitive mathematical structures like sums and exponentials on screen. Not exactly a new idea one might argue, but new code nevertheless. Using XML for math for instance. Some random conclusions for the interested (partially quite the opposite of older insights): - XML and LaTeX _are_ exchangable when it comes to storing math data. - MathML is not necessarily the right beast to do the job, though. - LyX's current document structure basing on value-semantics everywhere outperforms a document based on Qt's DOM implementation by a factor of 14(!) (I have just one data poiint for that, but I Am fairly sure this is representative) - output formats can be made plugins with less code than what current mathed uses - MathAtom could be made a lazy copy-on-write smart pointer (I once tried this within LyX but failed) And all this is compatible with using XML as external format. Isn't it nice... Andre'
