- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 07:58:15 -0500
- To: derhoermi@gmx.net (Bjoern Hoehrmann), Curt Arnold <carnold@houston.rr.com>
- Cc: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com, www-svg@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
At 10:00 AM +0100 3/4/01, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >Current implementations use a type attribute to identify the used >language. This attribute takes a valid MIME type. One major problem is, >that _there are no MIME types_ registered for common scripting >languages. I tried to change that and contacted several entities asking >for help. I had no success: > This is not as big a problem as you make out. Although standard types like text/javascript or application/vbscript would be a win, there are multiple options: 1. Start an RFC to define these types ourselves. 2. Use vendor types like application/vnd.w3c.javascript 3. Use x-types like x-script/x-javascript If using MIME media types to identify scripting languages is a good idea (and I think it is) then registering an appropriate type is not that hard. RFC 3023, XML Media Types, <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3023.html>, was put together by a an informal group of interested individuals. It was not pushed by the W3C. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible (IDG Books, 1999) | | http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/books/bible/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764532367/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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