- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 19:39:19 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 7:05:30 AM, Björn wrote: BH> * Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >>I'm also not sure of the benefit of letting the UA treat arbitrary >>other types as XML besides those listed. Modern XML MIME types should >>all be following the +xml convention. BH> It is false to assert modern XML MIME types follow the +xml convention. BH> The most recent type proposal, application/vnd.fcsexpress.launchfile, BH> does not, the reason being that the format uses XML now, but might not BH> do so in the future. An ISO standard case whether going either way is BH> sensible is application/fastinfoset, which certainly is a modern type. Björn, your conclusion does not follow from your evidence. If you see foo/bar+xml, the +xml convention licenses you to assert that this is definitely XML. If you see foo/bar, the +xml convention does not license you to conclude that it is *not* XML. The media types that you mention, which are sometimes xml and sometimes not, are thus correctly labelled. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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