Posted by Plamen Ratchev on 12/01/07 05:43

One way to implement this is to use the Mathematical Markup Language
(MathML). MathML is based on XML and is used for describing mathematical
notation and encoding both its structure and content. The main purpose of
MathML is to enable mathematics to be used on Internet, but since it is XML
based it is widely used in applications that can process XML.

SQL Server supports Unicode and also SQL Server 2005 adds support for XML
data type. There are many parsers, and any browser can serve as presentation
layer.

See more info on the official W3C site at the links below:
http://www.w3.org/Math/whatIsMathML.html
http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20070427/
http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/pmathml2.xml
http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/csmall2.xml

I have seen some applications that use MathML to store mathematical
notations, but developed in Oracle (still storing in XML columns).

HTH,

Plamen Ratchev
http://www.SQLStudio.com

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