- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: 19 Feb 2002 21:28:05 -0500
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, ietf-xml-mime@imc.org
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 19:20, Mark Nottingham wrote: > Might I suggest that any revision of RFC3023 include a new parameter > for application/xml and text/xml (say, 'rootNS') that contains the > root element's namespace URI, to allow HTTP content negotiation with > current implementations? Yes, this won't address cases where there is > a need to negotiate on more than one namespace in the document, but > it will certainly help with the simple cases, where dispatch is based > upon the root element's namespace (which seems to be the direction > things are going in). You're welcome to register a rootNS content feature. I have to admit that I don't understand or sympathize with the fascination with root element namespaces, and don't believe that RFC 3023 needs to add any XML-specific parameters, but a content feature should take care of what you're looking for. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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