- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 21:30:22 PST
- To: slein@wrc.xerox.com
- CC: yarong@microsoft.com, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
# When you register an attribute, you have to register with it a mime type (or # specify an existing mime type that it uses). The mime type would specify # things like whether the value can be a list or must be single-valued, the # set of valid values or range, length constraints, etc. I think 'mime type' is not the right type space for attribute values. Internet Media Types aren't a general typing mechanism, and the kinds of things you want to say about attributes don't really fit in, except in the cases where the attribute value really _is_ a piece of media. Since there's such a strong interaction between metadata and search, perhaps we shouldn't try to specify too much in the 'versioning and distributed authoring' domain except for the mechanisms by which attributes get set. Larry
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