- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 16:10:51 +0900
- To: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@w3.org>, merlin <merlin@baltimore.ie>
- Cc: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>, "Dournaee, Blake" <bdournaee@rsasecurity.com>, w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
Hello Joseph - Would it be possible to change the example below to something else than text/xml? Text/xml in base64 isn't exactly something that we should promote, or even mention. What about e.g. image/jpeg or something similar? Regards, Martin. At 18:41 01/05/31 -0400, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote: [ Resulting document > http://www.w3.org/Signature/Drafts/xmldsig-core/Overview.html > $Revision: 1.63 $ on $Date: 2001/05/31 22:40:41 $ > >/+The MimeType attribute is an optional attribute which describes the data >within the Object (independent of its encoding). This is a string with >values defined by [MIME]. For example, if the Object contains base64 >encoded XML, the Encoding may be specified as base64 and the MimeType as >text/xml. This attribute is purely advisory; no validation of the MimeType >information is required by this specification. Applications which require >normatiave type and encoding information for signature validation should >specify Transforms with well defined resulting types and/or encodings.+/ > >] > >-- >Joseph Reagle Jr. http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/ >W3C Policy Analyst mailto:reagle@w3.org >IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/Signature >W3C XML Encryption Chair http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
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