>> As I have some programming background I think >> application/xhtml|xml would have been much better and the pipe was >> available in addition to the plus sign. For historical curiosity, I'll mention that as a co-author of RFC 3023, I was in favor of using the pipe | (e.g., application/xhtml|xml, which was used in an earlier draft), but I was convinced by my co-authors that it could be too easily confused with capital I and lowercase l in many fonts. I suspect it didn't really matter, and the delimiter is in any event now firmly established as +. - dan -- Dan Kohn <mailto:dan@dankohn.com> <http://www.dankohn.com/> <tel:+1-650-327-2600>Received on Monday, 21 April 2003 12:25:06 GMT
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