- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:16:00 -0500 (EST)
- To: skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Williams, Stuart)
- Cc: gtn@rbii.com ('Gavin Thomas Nicol'), www-tag@w3.org, xml-dist-app@w3.org
> 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. A media type can be used to convey information not available in the content, without a doubt. The interesting question is, using XML and namespaces, can we specify generic processing and dispatch behaviour such that we don't need any out of band information. In theory, I know we can. In practice, I'm not sure. XSLT certainly hurts our ability to do this with the */xml types. 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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