XML News from Saturday, December 22, 2007

The W3C Math Working Group has posted the first public working draft of XML Entity definitions for Characters. "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." These include:

• isobox  Box and Line Drawing
• isocyr1  Russian Cyrillic
• isocyr2  Non-Russian Cyrillic
• isodia  Diacritical Marks
• isolat1  Added Latin 1
• isolat2  Added Latin 2
• isonum  Numeric and Special Graphic
• isopub  Publishing
• isoamsa  Added Math Symbols: Arrow Relations
• isoamsb  Added Math Symbols: Binary Operators
• isoamsc  Added Math Symbols: Delimiters
• isoamsn  Added Math Symbols: Negated Relations
• isoamso  Added Math Symbols: Ordinary
• isoamsr  Added Math Symbols: Relations
• isogrk1  Greek Letters
• isogrk2  Monotoniko Greek
• isogrk3  Greek Symbols
• isogrk4  Alternative Greek Symbols
• isomfrk  Math Alphabets: Fraktur
• isomopf  Math Alphabets: Open Face
• isomscr  Math Alphabets: Script
• isotech  General Technical
• mmlextra  Additional MathML Symbols
• mmlalias  MathML Aliases
• xhtml1-lat1  Latin for HTML
• xhtml1-special  Special for HTML
• xhtml1-symbol  Symbol for HTML