- From: Edwin Ortega <ortegae@wns.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:24:46 -0800
- To: "Micah Dubinko" <MDubinko@cardiff.com>, "'Mark Nottingham'" <mnot@mnot.net>, <www-forms@w3.org>
- Cc: "XML Distributed Applications List" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Micah Dubinko" <MDubinko@cardiff.com> To: "'Mark Nottingham'" <mnot@mnot.net>; <www-forms@w3.org> Cc: "XML Distributed Applications List" <xml-dist-app@w3.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:26 PM Subject: RE: XForms, XML media types, SOAP > Mark, > > The XForms Working Group will address these issues (both the example and the > broader question of "+xml" media types) during our Last Call process. Please > feel free to comment at any time. > > Thanks, > > .micah > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:mnot@mnot.net] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 10:45 AM > To: www-forms@w3.org > Cc: XML Distributed Applications List > Subject: XForms, XML media types, SOAP > > > > The current WD [1] of XForms, in section 4.3.4 "submitinfo" [2], notes: > > [...] attribute mediaTypeExtension is useful in cases where a media > type alone is not sufficiently precise. For instance, a SOAP > envelope would not be adequately described simply by "text/xml", > additional information would be required. > > The XML Protocol WG seems to be settling on a non-"text/xml" media > type, most likely "application/soap+xml" or some variant that uses > the conventions in RFC3023 [3]. > > Trivially, this means that this example should be changed. However, I > also wonder if the mediaTypeExtension could be better explained? It > isn't clear how it integrates with media types. There has been some > discussion of the relationship between namespaces URIs and media > types, but AFAIK no resolution has surfaced yet. > > Has RFC3023 been considered in the processing model for XForms? Right > now, only 'text/xml' will generate XML output; perhaps XForms should > pay attention to the '+xml' convention as well? > > N.B. Apologies if this is a rehash of a previous discussion; search > on lists.w3.org is down. > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice4.html#structure-model-submitInfo > [3] http://rfc3023.x42.com/ > > -- > Mark Nottingham > http://www.mnot.net/ > > >
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