Meeting the first time in autumn and then in March. The WG considered 2 proposals to proceed with HTML math. Another group from INRA allowed for the encoding of presentational as well as some content information. Outcome of the March meeting was to agree that XML will be basic syntax for mathematical fragments. It is important to note that it can be presentational, semantic, or a mixture.
All tags are parsable.
It has been a goal to go from 12083 presentational math to MML and to go from Semantic math into MML as well. Draft will be May 15th 1997. Second draft will be in September with final scheduled for May 15 1998. Roy Pike began the discussion by pointing out that the Web community is vast and gives feedback and 12083 semantic math fragment can fully compatible. Lauren Wood stated that one goal of the W3C presentational model is that authoring be easy.