2013/10/18 Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czark...@gmail.com>: > Szymon Olewniczak said: >> Another advantage of XML is its adaptation. We've already have MathML, >> SVG and many many others[1] all build on top of XML. > > SVG and MathML are probably the best arguments against XML ever. I am yet to > see two SVG libraries that would render sufficiently complex spec-complient > SVG equally. And I have no hope for seeing any spec-complient SVG rendering > library ever. > > MathML is yet worse. To save words: http://aiju.de/rant/XML/MathML
I'd not agree that SVG render problems are due to XML parsing. I think it's just that anything that attempts to draw SVG according to a spec must be *very* capable, with all those filters and transforms and animations and ecmascripts. It might as well be a TeX extension, and we would have the same (actually, probably even more) problems.
