Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)

Learn about Mathematical Markup Language (MathML), an XML application for expressing mathematical and scientific content. Use MathML for mixing mathematical content into other vocabularies such as XHTML and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (Second Edition) [W3C Recommendation] is an XML language whose intent, quoting from the specification, is "to facilitate the use and re-use of mathematical and scientific content on the Web, and for other applications such as computer algebra systems, print typesetting, and voice synthesis. MathML can be used to encode both the presentation of mathematical notation for high-quality visual display, and mathematical content, for applications where the semantics plays more of a key role such as scientific software or voice synthesis." MathML is often used to represent equations, formulae, and the like in education, scientific discourse, industrial specifications, regulatory content, and more. MathML is often used with XHTML, SVG, and other applications.

Resources

• A Gentle Introduction to MathML by Robert Miner and Jeff Schaeffer (Design Science, October 2001) offers a good first look at MathML.
  
  
• The PDF article MathML: Presenting and Capturing Mathematics for the Web by Michael Kohlhase takes a longer and more in-depth look at MathML.
  
  
• ZVON's MathML 2 reference with examples by Miloslav Nic is more of an index that maps the relationships between elements.
  
  
• Read about other XML standards: Index of XML standards.
  
  
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