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Re: xml-mime status?

1999-07-12 03:22:27
Simon St.Laurent wrote:
The last message on this list was 6/2/99.  Is there any activity going on,
or have we all taken the summer (or winter, southern hemisphere) off?

Two things recently happened.

1) Announcement of the first draft of XPath (http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath)

This specification does not reference to media types.

2) Announcement of a new draft of XPointer (http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xptr)

XPointer defines the meaning of the "selector" or "fragment identifier" 
portion of URIs that locate resources of MIME media types "text/xml" 
and "application/xml".

I have a question.  Why do we have to use media types here?  If an XML 
document contains a link which takes advantage of XPointer, we just know 
that the URI references to an XML document and thus do not have to be 
notified by XML media types.  

Makoto
 
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