RE: should CSS, HTML, etc. documents bear version information? (XMLVersioning-41?)

>Again, we are in complete agreement.  Perhaps one of the biggest
>problems that we have had with enhancing the self-describing web is the
>use of XML as a container language and identifying ONLY the container in
>the mime type, particularly application/soap+xml.  The same problems we
>have with identifying the mime type of a document are the same problems
>with have with identifying the xml language(s) and version(s) in a
>document.  There doesn't seem to be a lot of consensus on how to deal
>with container languages and versioning practices thereof, AFAICT.  It
>seems that HTML and XML have mostly copied the MIME practice of just
>identifying the outermost language and not having a "manifest" of the
>versions embedded within.

+1. In fact, +2.

Pat Hayes
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