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Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376

2000-03-16 22:24:06
In message "Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376",
Rick Jelliffe wrote...
Please let us stick with the rationale for having text/xml and
application/xml in the first place: the former would be useful
in all the cases where transcoding/newline-fiddling/defaulting-to-
text-viewer was useful and the latter was useful when we want to
prevent trancoding/newline-fiddling/defaulting-to-text-viewer.

No.  Application/xml was introduced since some XML is not 
readable for casual users.  As Ned Freed pointed out long time ago, 
text/* is inappropriate for something unreadable for casual users.

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MURATA Makoto  muraw3c(_at_)attglobal(_dot_)net

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