- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:31:13 +0000
- To: Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>
- CC: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Garret Wilson wrote: > > The following messages seems to be a good overview of some of the > perceived problems with a text top-level MIME type: > > http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg36105.html > http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg36149.html > > Of particular interest is the RFC 2046 requirement that all line breaks > be CRLF, and that CR and LF not appear outside a line break sequence. > This doesn't worry me so much---after all, "text/xml" seems to ignore > this requirement (XML allows arbitrary CRs and LSs; see > <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-line-ends>). My understanding is that text/xml is widely considered problematic, eg. http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/03/text-xml http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ quoting from http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt Dan
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