Attribute
A parameter to an XML element (specified in the begin tag) that is
composed of an attribute name and a value.
Block level tag
A term used for categorizing display style (math in between paragraphs)
MathML elements.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
A
mechanism that allows authors and readers to attach style (e.g.
fonts, colors and spacing) to HTML documents.
Character Data (CDATA)
A SGML data type for raw text which does not include markup or
entity references.
Character level tag
A term used for categorizing inline (math as part of a paragraph)
MathML elements.
Content element
MathML elements which explicitly specify the meaning of a portion of a
MathML expression.
Document Type Definition (DTD)
In SGML or XML a formal
definition of the tags and the relationship among the
data elements (the structure) for a particular type of document.
Entity reference
A sequence of ASCII characters of the form
&name; which represents some other data, typically a
non-ASCII character.
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
A simple dialect of SGML intended to enable generic SGML to be served,
received, and processed on the Web.
Fence tags
A matched pair of bracketing tokens like parentheses, braces, and
brackets.
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)
The markup language (specified in this document) for describing
mathematical expression structure,
together with a mathematical context.
MathML element
An XML element which describes part of the logical structure of a MathML
document
Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
A set of specifications that offers a way to interchange text in
languages
with different character sets, and multi-media content among many different
computer systems that use Internet mail standards.
OpenMath
A general representation language for communicating mathematical
objects between application programs.
Parsed Character Data (PCDATA)
A SGML data type for raw text occurring in a context in which
markup and entity references may occur.
Presentation elements
MathML tags and entities intended to express the syntactic structure
of math notation.
Presentation layout schema
A presentation element that can have other MathML elements as content.
Presentation tokens
A presentation element that can have only parsed character data
as content.
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
An ISO standard (ISO 8879:1986) which supplies a formal notation for
the definition of generalized markup languages via DTDs.