- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:13:50 +0100
- To: public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org
On 24/09/2013 17:42, Rushforth, Peter wrote: > What's astonishing is how many XML vocabularies rely only on > application/xml on the web. Why is that surprising at all? If you have a a vocabulary served as application/xml it can in many cases just automatically do the right thing, especially if coupled with an in-document processing instruction such as xml-stylesheet. If you invent a new xml vocabuary and give it a new mime type, there are typically few advantages and a massive disadvantage that the default behaviour for every application is to drop it on the floor as an unknown mimetype. We (finally in MathML3, after 15 years of MathML) got round to registering a mime type for MathML, because some people would find it useful, but it is of very limited use on the web (most convincing use case for it is labelling clipboard formats on some operating systems) David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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