- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:54:27 -0500
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
* Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> [2004-11-20 19:35-0800] > > On Nov 20, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Dare Obasanjo wrote: > > >That is a very significant generalization you've made there. > >Considering that both IIS and Apache default to serving files that end > >in ".xml" as some */xml MIME type are you claiming that they are both > >buggy or that every time someone puts a file that ends in ".xml" on > >the Web it is a bug? > > I think that a file whose extension is .xml is usually evidence of a > bug, yes. Because the file is usually something else (often RSS), and > the .xml is hiding that. -Tim Oh, interesting. This shakes out slightly differently in RDF, where often we're never sure if it's a "Dublin Core", "FOAF", "Creative Commons", "DOAP,"Wordnet", "MusicBrainz" or "FOAF" file, since those vocabs/namespaces only define dictionaries of terms that can get mixed t ogether. The mixing is a blessing and a curse. RSS1 is a little different 'cos the spec (just about...) defines a document class too... So RDF files are typically served application/rdf+xml though often they have a "dominant namespace" whose presence drives the data structures, with other namespaces typically being somewhat annotational in their use. Dan
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