At 07:16 PM 3/20/00 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
Requesting yet again. Could we please have details of this horrible
problem inflicted by the -xml suffix?
could we please have details of how conneg expressions or HTTP
Accept headers could be used to say things like
"I accept XML documents"?
It's a good question, except (critically) that the suffix under discussion
doesn't provide any mechanisms for making such requests.
All this suffix lets us do is sort out the XML from the non-XML without
sniffing. As has been stated repeatedly for the last few days, sniffing is
neither reliable nor fun, and doesn't take advantage of commodity components.
I am quite content to have meaningfully labeled information even in the
absence of detailed discussions about those labels.
I'm still looking for damage, though I'm concluding more and more that
there simply isn't any, and that this discussion is only circling.
Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
Building XML Applications
Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical
Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth
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