I fully agree with Larry's interpretation of RFC 3023 and his
comment on this proposal. "is XML" and "contains XML" are
two different things, and the "+xml" suffix is only for
the "is XML" case.
Regards, Martin.
At 04:17 07/05/18, Larry Masinter wrote:
I believe the +xml suffix should be reserved for media types whose content
can be
parsed without any preprocessing by a generic XML parser. A reply
from David Singer indicated that the proposed MPEG 21file format is "binary
and contains within it either XML text or BiM-encoded XML (like a ZIP
archive
with an XML document as the main document.)"
In that case, the use of +xml would (IMO) be inappropriate.
I thought this was clear form RFC 3023, but perhaps not.
Larry
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