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      <p id="w3c_toggle_include" class="default_open intro tPadding">This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
     For related introductory information, see: <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/math">Math on the Web</a>.</p>
      <h2 id="completed">Completed Work</h2>
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         <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q75">Group Notes</a> are <em>not</em> standards and do not
	have the same level of W3C endorsement.</p>
      <h3 id="stds">Standards</h3>
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                  <td class="table_datecol">
                     <a href="../history/mathml-for-css" title="A MathML for CSS Profile publication history">2011-06-07</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-mathml-for-css-20110607/">A MathML for CSS Profile</a>
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                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/Translations/Query?titleMatch=mathml-for-css">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/Math/Documents/mathmlcss-errata.html">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document describes a profile of MathML 3.0 that admits
formatting with Cascading Style Sheets.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/MathML3" title="Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0 publication history">2010-10-21</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-MathML3-20101021/">Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0</a>
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                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/Translations/Query?titleMatch=MathML3">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/Math/Documents/mathml3-errata.html">errata</a>
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                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This specification defines the Mathematical Markup Language, or
MathML. MathML is an XML
application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both
its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable
mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide
Web, just as HTML has enabled
this functionality for text.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/xml-entity-names" title="XML Entity Definitions for Characters publication history">2010-04-01</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xml-entity-names-20100401/">XML Entity Definitions for Characters</a>
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                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/Translations/Query?titleMatch=XML+Entity+definitions+for+Characters">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007xml/errata.html">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document defines several sets of names which are assigned
to Unicode characters. Each of these sets is also implemented as a
file of XML entity declarations.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/MathML2" title="Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (Second Edition) publication history">2003-10-21</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-MathML2-20031021/">Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (Second Edition)</a>
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                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/02/MathML2-translations">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/06/mathml2e2-errata.html">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This specification defines the Mathematical Markup Language, or
MathML. MathML is an XML
application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both
its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable
mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide
Web, just as HTML has enabled
this functionality for text.</p>
                        <p>This specification of the markup language MathML is intended
primarily for a readership consisting of those who will be
developing or implementing renderers or editors using it, or
software that will communicate using MathML as a protocol for input
or output. It is <em>not</em> a User's Guide but rather a reference
document.</p>
                        <p>This document begins with background information on mathematical
notation, the problems it poses, and the philosophy underlying the
solutions MathML 2.0 proposes. MathML can be used to encode both
mathematical notation and mathematical content. About thirty of the
MathML tags describe abstract notational structures, while another
about one hundred and fifty provide a way of unambiguously
specifying the intended meaning of an expression. Additional
chapters discuss how the MathML content and presentation elements
interact, and how MathML renderers might be implemented and should
interact with browsers. Finally, this document addresses the issue
of MathML characters and their relation to fonts.</p>
                        <p>While MathML is human-readable, it is anticipated that, in all
but the simplest cases, authors will use equation editors,
conversion programs, and other specialized software tools to
generate MathML. Several versions of such MathML tools already
exist, and a number of others, both freely available software and
commercial products, are under development.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/REC-MathML" title="Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 1.01 Specification publication history">1999-07-07</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/1999/07/REC-MathML-19990707">Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 1.01 Specification</a>
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                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/mathml101-updates/errata.html">errata</a>
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                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This specification defines the Mathematical Markup Language, or
<acronym>MathML</acronym>.
MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation
and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the
Web, just as <acronym>HTML</acronym> has enabled this
functionality for text.</p>
                        <p>This specification of the markup language MathML is intended
primarily for a readership consisting of those who will be
developing or implementing renderers or editors using it, or
software that will communicate using MathML as a protocol for input
or output. It is not a User's Guide but rather a reference
document.</p>
                        <p>This document begins with background information on mathematical
notation, the problems it poses, and the philosophy underlying the
solutions MathML proposes. MathML can be used to encode both
mathematical notation and mathematical content. Twenty-eight of the
MathML tags describe abstract notational structures, while another
seventy-five provide a way of unambiguously specifying the intended
meaning of an expression. Additional chapters discuss how the
MathML content and presentation elements interact, and how MathML
renderers might be implemented and should interact with browsers.
Finally, this document addresses the issue of MathML entities
(extended characters) and their relation to fonts.</p>
                        <p>While MathML is human-readable it is anticipated that, in all
but the simplest cases, authors will use equation editors,
conversion programs, and other specialized software tools to
generate MathML. Several early versions of such MathML tools
already exist, and a number of others, both freely available
software and commercial products, are under development.</p>
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      <h3 id="notes">Group Notes</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/arabic-math" title="Arabic mathematical notation publication history">2006-01-31</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-arabic-math-20060131">Arabic mathematical notation</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Analyzes potential problems with the use of MathML for the presentation of mathematics in the notations customarily used with Arabic, and related languages.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/mathml-units" title="Units in MathML publication history">2003-11-10</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-units-20031110/">Units in MathML</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical
notation, capturing both its structure and content. As such, its
scope does not extend to include units - determinate quantities
adopted as standards of measure - which nevertheless, by their very
nature, occur in an applied mathematical setting. This Note makes
recommendations and suggestions for how units can be incorporated
into MathML.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/mathml-types" title="Structured Types in MathML 2.0 publication history">2003-11-10</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-types-20031110/">Structured Types in MathML 2.0</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This Note discusses the facilities that are available in the
MathML 2.0 Recommendation to facilitate the capturing of
mathematical type information. It demonstrates how a combination of
these features can be systematically used to provide support for
general mathematical types.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/mathml-bvar" title="Bound Variables in MathML publication history">2003-11-10</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-bvar-20031110/">Bound Variables in MathML</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This Note examines the treatment of bound variables in Content
MathML. Bound variables are central representational primitives in
mathematical languages. They allow one to express functions,
quantification, and operators with qualifiers. The first edition of
the MathML 2.0 Recommendation [MathML2] was
somewhat vague about the identity conditions on bound variables,
and as a consequence Content MathML applications were left to guess
the exact meaning. This Note provides some of the rationale behind
how this has been clarified in the second edition [MathML22e].</p>
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      <p>These specifications have either been superseded by others,
      or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
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                     <a href="../history/XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG" title="An XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile publication history">2002-08-09</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG-20020809/">An XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile</a>
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                        <p>An XHTML+MathML+SVG profile is a profile that combines XHTML 1.1
[XHTML11], MathML 2.0
[MathML2] and SVG 1.1
[SVG11] together. This
profile enables mixing XHTML, MathML and SVG in the same document
using <abbr>XML</abbr>
namespaces [XMLNS]
mechanism, while allowing validation of such a mixed-namespace
document. An XHTML 1.1 + MathML 2.0 + SVG 1.1 <abbr>DTD</abbr> driver is provided. An XHTML
version of this document is conforming to this DTD.</p>
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