RE: Media types

Hi John, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: September 18, 2012 13:16
> To: Rushforth, Peter
> Cc: stephengreenubl@gmail.com; Uche Ogbuji; public-microxml@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Media types
> 
> Rushforth, Peter scripsit:
> 
> > Ok, I change my vote to +1 for application/xml.  That's 
> probably just 
> > as well, because I'm sure you would not want to read me calling yet 
> > again for reserving the meaning of @base @lang @href, @src, 
> @rel @type 
> > @hreflang in a micro xml media type registration.
> 
> Indeed.  "A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and 
> won't change the subject."

I admit I've been a bit dogged about this.  However, I don't think I'm 
the only one who sees the lack of useable hypermedia spec for XML
as a problem.  I will have to get back to working on that, as time permits.

> 
> > Although that brings up the point of how are applications 
> of micro xml 
> > expected to declare their base URI and language?
> 
> As they see fit, possibly with a MicroAF document to declare 
> mapping to a standard document type.  I expect that people 
> will tend to use "base", "lang", and "id".

So I guess that will work for href, type, et al also.  But for "global"
semantics, one will have to bind them to a media type.  Before 
people start using @base, @id, @lang (and the hypermedia attributes)
would be the time to do that in a media type registration, as backwards
compatibility can't be an issue at the beginning of a media type.

Regards,
Peter

Received on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:11:34 UTC