Styling MathML-Next Markup

[AdamSobieski]

Introduction

In #68, in the section titled URL String Interpolation, Templating and Formatting, a syntactic option was presented with which we could express markup resembling:

<math id="eq1">
  <semantics>
    <mrow>default</mrow>
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/mathml-presentation+xml" lang="en" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fmathml-presentation+xml&amp;language=en" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/xhtml+xml" lang="en" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fxhtml+xml&amp;language=en" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/svg+xml" lang="en" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fsvg+xml&amp;language=en" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/mathml-presentation+xml" lang="fr" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fmathml-presentation+xml&amp;language=fr" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/xhtml+xml" lang="fr" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fxhtml+xml&amp;language=fr" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/svg+xml" lang="fr" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fsvg+xml&amp;language=fr" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/mathml-presentation+xml" lang="es" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fmathml-presentation+xml&amp;language=es" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/xhtml+xml" lang="es" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fxhtml+xml&amp;language=es" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/svg+xml" lang="es" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fsvg+xml&amp;language=es" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/mathml-presentation+xml" lang="de" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fmathml-presentation+xml&amp;language=de" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/xhtml+xml" lang="de" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fxhtml+xml&amp;language=de" />
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/svg+xml" lang="de" src="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type=application%2Fsvg+xml&amp;language=de" />
  </semantics>
</math>

with markup resembling:

<math id="eq1">
  <semantics>
    <mrow>default</mrow>
    <annotation-xml encoding="application/mathml-presentation+xml application/xhtml+xml application/svg+xml" lang="en fr es de" pattern="math.php?equation=eq1&amp;type={encoding}&amp;language={lang}" />
  </semantics>
</math>

The syntactic option, with an accompanying content selection algorithm, utilizes space-delimited values for certain attributes, e.g. encoding and lang, with a pattern attribute which, via string interpolation, generates values for a src attribute.

In the first example with twelve <annotation-xml> elements, we could select to style with a syntax resembling:

math > semantics > annotation-xml[encoding='application/mathml-presentation+xml']:selected

or

math annotation-xml[encoding='application/mathml-presentation+xml']:selected

Any thoughts on how we might style content in the second example with one <annotation-xml> element?

[AdamSobieski]

Also, might w3c/csswg-drafts#3730 be pertinent? Might we need to utilize something like a >> combinator to select into remote content loaded by <annotation> and <annotation-xml> elements, content referenced via a URL specified in a src attribute or via a URL generated per the pattern attribute?

That is, something like:
math > semantics > annotation-xml:selected >> mrow
or:
math annotation-xml:selected >> mrow

[dginev]

[minor admin] In the MathML Full WG meeting on Sep 28th, 2023, we agreed to re-title issues scheduled for the next charter with "MathML-Next", to avoid confusion.