- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:37:49 PDT
- To: "Koen Holtman" <koen@win.tue.nl>, "Carrasco Benitez Manuel" <manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>, <tc46sc2@elot.gr>, <Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no>
The use of MIME-based document attributes should be limited to include only those elements that are absolutely necessary for the proper automated interpretation and display of the data. "content-type" is necessary, but decorations of content-type as to versions, etc., are not. The "charset" is necessary, in order to choose the appropriate display mechanism, and "content-language" is necessary, not as a descriptive element "this is really in language X", but only as a way of choosing the appropriate language-specific display mechanisms, e.g., hyphenation, glyph choices. It may well be useful to tag a resource with additional information, such as the language transliteration scheme, etc., but this tagging should not be done with MIME labels. Use of RDF is probably more appropriate, where a full elaboration of all of the resource descriptions you want is quite possible. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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