What is MathML?

MathML 2.0, a W3C Recommendation was released on 21 Feb 2001. A product of the W3C Math working group, MathML is a low-level specification for describing mathematics as a basis for machine to machine communication. It provides a much needed foundation for the inclusion of mathematical expressions in Web pages and applications.

MathML provides both presentation (desribes the visual appearance of a mathematical equation, and content (describes the semantics of a mathmatical equation) markups.

Currently, I am in the process of writing a control to visually render and edit presenation markup. The nice thing about these two markups, is that it is fairly straight forward to convert between the two. In fact, a xsl stylesheet exists to do just this.