Re: Media types

You can't nest subtypes: for example, application/xml/foo.  But
application/foo+micro+xml is explicitly mentioned in the passage I quoted
from RFC3023.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Rushforth, Peter <
Peter.Rushforth@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:

> Try as I might, I can't find the reference, but I'm pretty sure you can't
> stack
>  suffixes.
>
> I'll keep looking, but is anyone else aware of that rule?
>
> Peter
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
> > Sent: September 10, 2012 23:43
> > To: public-microxml@w3.org
> > Subject: Re: Media types
> >
> > James Clark scripsit:
> >
> > > We should think about what our story is on media types?
> > > application/xml, application/microxml,
> > application/microxml+xml, application/micro+xml?
> >
> > I'd favor the last, as showing that MicroXML documents are
> > XML.  Specific MicroXML-based formats could be
> > */foo+micro+xml, extending the existing pattern.
> >
> > --
> > John Cowan              cowan@ccil.org
> > http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> > Any day you [see] all five woodpeckers is a good day.
> > --Elliotte Rusty Harold
> >
> >
>