muraw3c(_at_)attglobal(_dot_)net wrote:
From: Dave Peterson <davep(_at_)acm(_dot_)org>
Subject: Re: Announcement of a new I-D
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 13:11:29 -0400
At 1:37 AM +0900 5/10/00, muraw3c(_at_)attglobal(_dot_)net wrote:
At the ietf-822 mailing list, Keith Moore [1] pointed out that "-" is
already used too heavily by existing media types. Chris Newman [2]
suggested ~!$^+{}| We picked |
One of the others would have had the advantage that it doesn't look like
another character (e.g., Cap I and/or lower case L in san-serif) in any
common fonts.
Which one do you strongly recommend? It is not too late.
Well if it is not too late, I would very much like to see the separator
altered back to "-".
The trailing string "-xml" does not occur, as you say, in any registered
MIME types. The frequency of "-" or indeed of "x" "m" and "l" elsewhere in
registered types is irrelevant. the bare symbol "-" was not being proposed
as a separator al by itself.
It was the terminal string "-xml" which, as you point out, is unused in any
existing MIME type and thus there is no possibility of confusion.
However, SVG is getting close to finished and we would like a stable naming
system to use. The latest SVG last call working draft in fact stated that
the MIME type for SVG would be registered as "image/svg-xml". If the
trailing string is altered to "|xml" then the SVG WG has to choose between
moving to the new preferred syntax, or staying with the old one and loosing
any semantic about general XML processing.
--
Chris