- From: Williams, Stuart <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:36:53 -0000
- To: "'Gavin Thomas Nicol'" <gtn@rbii.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Hi Gavin, > -----Original Message----- > From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@rbii.com] > Sent: 15 January 2002 17:15 > To: www-tag@w3.org; xml-dist-app@w3.org > Subject: Re: Media types > > > On Tuesday 15 January 2002 10:11 am, Williams, Stuart wrote: > > > The point being that the application interpreting the document > > > defines it's processing/interpretation, not the namespace > > > declarations. > > > > So... are you suggesting that at least in some cases the > > processing/interpretation of a document determines its type? > > Absolutely. One program says it's a book, another a string. > > > Get's kind of circular if a determination of the type of a document > > is used to resolve what processing/interpretation it should be > > subjected to! > > Which is why I have generally been in favor of out-of-band processing > specification. I think we agree... in some sense the media-type communicates something that is not simply discernable by looking at the content. It's not redundant information, in some sense it adds value. Thanks, Stuart
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