Re: No media type

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> I ask because I find myself in a situation where I want to distinguish
> between XSL transformations and XProc pipelines. Following the
> convention of the XML Stylesheet PI and the script and link elements
> in HTML, it's tempting to say:
>
>  <transform name="foo" type="text/xsl" fileref="foo.xsl"/>
>  <transform name="bar" type="application/xproc+xml" fileref="bar.xpl"/>
>
> Except I can't because there isn't a MIME type...so if we aren't
> going to define a MIME type, what should I do in this case?

I think we should register application/xproc+xml.

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--Alex Milowski
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inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics

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