Currently,
\text{...}
is displayed as a single identifier (
<mi>...</mi>
). In some rendering engines (such as the one used by Eclipse), all identifiers are displayed in italics.
I think it would be beneficial to display
\text{...}
as
<mi mathvariant="normal">...</mi>
, which will ensure that the text is displayed in a normal font (some rendering engines, such as the one used by Firefox, do this automatically for multi-character identifiers, but I do not believe that this is in the spec).