Re: Hypermedia - Why

On 25/07/2012 16:35, David Carlisle wrote:
> I can see that in application/mathml+xml there is an definition of
> their meaning.

You've mentioned mime types before but I think it's an important point
that most XML vocabularies are not defined in terms of a mime type.
The mime type is useful in some contexts (and MathML defined that one at
MathML3 but it had happily gone for a decade without). One usually
distinguishes Docbook from XHTML from TEI not by the mimetype it is
served with, but rather as you would distinguish English from German or
Fortran from C by looking at the terms used in the document or by some
prior agreement of the language of communication. That's why it is easy
to have an XHTML+MathML+SVG document even though a mime type can only
refer to the document as a whole.

David


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