- From: Jones, Matthew <MJones@NetSilicon.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 07:41:09 -0700
- To: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
I think the problem is that XML is really not a format at all it is a meta format. Also something like application/xml doesn't fit since xml isn't an application or a file format format for an application that say application/mathematica is. I think that xml should be its own type and the various instances should be its subtypes. For example xml/mathml xml/svgml xml/soap xml/wsdl ... If xhtml could become the standard I think xml/xhtml would make more sense than what we have now. This allows a fall back to xml for processing processors that don't have a renderer for say svgml. I think if you compare with existing content types say image/jpeg you'll see that as a metaphor xml has more in common with image than with jpeg. Matthew Jones mjones@netsilicon.com
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