- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:55:19 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-tag@w3.org
- Cc: ietf-xml-mime@imc.org
[I should have CCd ietf-xml-mime on the initial post, but it didn't occur to me. Anyhow, that post can be found here; http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Jan/0063.html ] Speaking for myself now, > Q. 3; What is, or what should be, the relationship between a media type > and an XML namespace? One of the thoughts that I had quite a while ago (that I believe came from something I saw from Dan Connolly), was of being able to migrate from media types to namespaces by exposing the namespace through an optional namespace parameter on a generic XML media type, for example XHTML could be described with; application/xml; xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" instead of with the custom type, application/xhtml+xml. I raised this with the authors of RFC 3023 long ago, but they rejected it. But I believe it remains worth considering. It seems to me to be a nice bridge, similar to the one the XMLP WG has taken with "relocating" SOAPAction to a parameter on the proposed SOAP media type[1]. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Jan/0029.html MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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