At 12:24 PM 3/12/00 -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> >why? is there really much value in a default treatment
> of text/* xml
> >documents as plain text? (the default doesn't seem to
> work well in
> >practice for text/html) or is xml really likely to be used for
> >image/*, audio/*, video/*, or model/* content?
I think that this actually argues in favor of 'xml/' as a top level.
I disagree.
I could be wrong, but my take is that the top-level MIME type relates to
the media presentation/handling capabilities of the receiving system, and
the sub-type relates to the content encoding/decoding details of a
particular message. I think XML falls into the second category for most
purposes.
#g
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Graham Klyne
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