Re: regex for media types

Amy,

The Working Group has conferred and believes that these issues have 
already been considered.

Regards,



On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 07:45  AM, Amy Lewis wrote:

>
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:31:12 -0700
> Mark Nottingham <mark.nottingham@bea.com> wrote:
>> While new top-level media types aren't added often, there is an
>> extensibility point for them in the 'x-' convention. Enumerating them
>> won't really improve interoperability, as many implementations won't
>> recognize subtypes, and will require us to revise the specification
>> each time a major type is added.
>
> Since this isn't likely to happen, there isn't much of a problem with
> enumeration, then, is there?  Likewise, it's perfectly fine to use a
> regex that begins 'x-'.
>
>> What does it mean for a processor to support a type? The typing is
>> useful to the application, not the SOAP stack, in MTOM.
>
> Nope.  A processor *must* understand the distinction between composite
> types (multipart, message) and simple types.
>
> Amy!
> -- 
> Amelia A. Lewis
> Architect, TIBCO/Extensibility, Inc.
> alewis@tibco.com