Re: parse() and media types

On Oct 24, 2010, at 15:02 , Nathan wrote:

> Thomas Steiner wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>> I was wondering if we might use:
>>> http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/
>> Sounds like a good thing to do, if the list can be extended to contain
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/microformats
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/microdata
>> along the already present
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/RDFa
> 
> agreed, that would be cool - and Ivan thanks for adding.

Wait a minute: I have not added it (yet). Do we have an agreement that this is necessary and the way to go? I do not want to add unnecessary things there...

Ivan


> 
>> With regards to MIME types and file extensions for common RDF
>> serializations, those, as far as I can tell from the various specs or
>> spec-like documents, are meant to be as follows (where sometimes
>> common practice differs):
>> RDF/XML: application/rdf+xml (*.rdf)
>> Turtle: text/turtle (*.ttl)
>> N3: text/n3 (*.n3)
>> NTriples: text/plain (*.nt)
> 
> Just a quick FYI, RDF/XML is the only one that's registered, but is also often served as application/xml
> 
> Turtle is often served as:
>  text/turtle
>  application/turtle
>  application/x-turtle
> 
> N3 is often served as:
>  text/n3
>  text/rdf+n3
>  text/turtle+n3
>  application/n3
> 
> and all 3 + nt are often served as:
>  text/text
>  text/plain
> 
> It's quite a pita to be honest! (not mentioning pdf or similar ;))
> 
>> This list, as Nathan points out, leaves out embedded RDF/semantics
>> like RDFa, micro{data|formats}.
>> I think using an extended list based on http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/
>> is a good solution. Plus a name change to the API ;-)
>> Best,
>> Tom
> 


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