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Re: Finishing the XML-tagging discussion

2000-04-21 11:06:50
I have been reading the XML tagging discussion, here is a
short summary of my understanding of the problem:

I don't agree at all with your assessment. In particular,

(b) Alternative-      Easy to implement,      Some mailers which
Content-Type parameter        neat.                   do not know of this
                                              parameter may be
                                              confused.

is, in my opinion:

(b) Alternative-        Avoids possible         Hard to implement in
Content-Type parameter  complications           many environments, extremely
                        should many             hard to deploy. Introduces
                        similar things          many obvious silly states.
                        be needed in the
                        future.

And we have agreement, even from those who appose (a), of the disadvantages of
(b).

And (c) should be:

(c) Super-              Gives MIME a badly      All the problems of (b),
Content-Type parameter  designed new            must be very carefully
                        with some limited       designed, and even if
                        object-oriented         carefully designed is
                        capabilities.           guaranteed to be abused.

My conclusion is that (b) seems to be the best alternative, unless
we want to really think through an object-oriented structuring of
subtypes.

My conclusion is that (a) wins overwhelmingly.

                                Ned

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