- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:53:30 -0400
- Cc: ietf-xml-mime@imc.org, WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
[Should we be cross-posting? I suspect ietf-xml-mime is probably a better forum for detailed discussion, but as TAG made the initial request, maybe cross-posting is appropriate. Someone please advise.] FYergeau@alis.com (Francois Yergeau) writes: >Tim Bray wrote: >> I agree entirely with Michael and feel that the, er, >> textuality of XML is at the centre of everything. > >I happen to agree with that. But please consider that saying 'XML is >text' is not at all the same thing as saying 'XML is "text/"', as the >latter is a MIME concept that carries a lot of additional (and >unfortunate) baggage. That's my position as well, and a nice way to say it. While in more general terms I feel very strongly that XML is text, I don't feel that XML is text/. It's unfortunate that text/ doesn't correspond cleanly with text, but there are lots of good historical reasons for the baggage. The cost of that baggage for XML is such that I'm happy to move to application/.
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