Re: N-Triples MIME type should not be text/plain -- comment on RDF Test Cases.

Graham Klyne wrote:
> Also, from RFC 3023 (section 1):
> [[
>    Similarly, XML will be used as a foundation for other media types,
>    including types in every branch of the IETF media types tree.  To
>    facilitate the processing of such types, media types based on XML,
>    but that are not identified using text/xml or application/xml, SHOULD
>    be named using a suffix of '+xml' as described in Section 7.  This
>    will allow XML-based tools -- browsers, editors, search engines, and
>    other processors -- to work with all XML-based media types.
> ]]
> -- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt
>
> I don't think a similar case can be made for either RDF or N3 (for different
> reasons).
>   

Funny, I thought that a similar line of reasoning was obvious for 
RDF/N3. Let's say that I have a "recipe" format that stores recipes for 
my recipe application. Or maybe I have a configuration file type for my 
operating system. If they were to have content types of 
application/recipe+rdf+n3 and application/config+rdf+n3, respectively, 
couldn't I edit them in a general RDF editor that could read N3, even if 
I didn't have MyRecipeApplication or MyOSConfigEditor handy?

Garret

Received on Sunday, 4 November 2007 22:39:18 UTC