- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:45:51 +0200
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:34:08 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > "Otherwise, if the Content-Type header contains a media type (ignoring > any parameters) that is either text/xml, application/xml, or ends in > +xml, it must be an object that implements the Document interface > representing the parsed document. If the document was not an XML > document, or if the document could not be parsed (due to an XML > well-formedness error or unsupported character encoding, for instance), > it must be null." > > Should this be taken to mean that for any other Content-Type, > implementations MUST NOT attempt to parse as XML? If so, please say > that. Optionally allowing XML parsing for types not specifically > mentioned would be bad for interoperability. So instead of "If the document was not an XML document" having "If Content-Type did not contain such a media type"? > Also, consider the following media types that represent XML data of some > form, but are not text/xml, application/xml, or a type that ends in > +xml. Some of these are unofficial or obsolete: > > text/xsl 364,000: http://www.google.com/search?q=text%2Fxsl application/xslt+xml 9,270: http://www.google.com/search?q=application%2Fxslt%2Bxml application/xsl-xml (note the dash...) 137: http://www.google.com/search?q=application%2Fxsl-xml > text/mathml 569: http://www.google.com/search?q=text%2Fmathml application/mathml+xml 815: http://www.google.com/search?q=application%2Fmathml%2Bxml > text/xml-external-parsed-entity > application/xml-external-parsed-entity Are these supported? > application/smil That one is obsoleted by application/smil+xml... But yeah... > Of these, I only know for sure that text/xsl is in common use for > sending XML content, even though it is unofficial and technically > illegal. Any proposals? Personally I don't really care about any of them... -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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