I understand. However, and this is probably my answer to the original
ISSUE: I do not think we have *any* feasible alternative than to follow
the MIME type of the 'host' document.
Ivan
Dan Brickley wrote:
>
> Ivan Herman wrote:
>> Dan,
>>
>> not pushing aside your question (for which I do not have a clear answer
>> at the moment, I must admit), can you explain how this issue influences
>> the original ISSUE-29?
>
> Sure. Mime types define semantics of #blah. There are established, but
> different, precedents for the existing RDF and XHTML mimetypes. I wanted
> to make sure that if the XHTML mime type route is taken, there is no
> unexpected impact on #blah usage for non-document resources.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Dan
>
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